jdanton

I get the feeling people are more entrenched in their desires/beliefs this election than in any past elections.

My guess is it's the result of the many serious problems our country faces combined with the history of recent presidential elections.

The 2000 election was distasteful, illegal, and we had to accept the results, and the results of those results are the many serious problems our country now faces.

In the 2004 election we saw a man who failed to show up for his guard duty win the "military record" argument against a Vietnam vet with many medals. Doesn't hardly seem possible.

We saw the worst president in our nation's history get a 2nd term, and I'm not sure many of us believe yet that this happened.

I get the impression that those of us who believe in individual candidates do so because we believe that candidate is best able to literally save our country from self destruction.

At this point in time, I believe the most important thing for our future to to get as many republicans replaced by as many democrats as we possibly can.

I think we NEED to put a democrat, either one, in the White House, and we need to give the dems a 60 vote majority in the senate.

This will give the dems no excuse to get done whatever they wish to do. If they choose to solve these major problems, they'll not be blocked by the republicans. Insofar as the domestic agenda is concerned, the make up of the congress is more important than whether Obama or Clinton is president.

However, if McCain is president, it may be necessary to override vetoes on many of the domestic things we want fixed.

It is, therefore, imperative, at least in my humble opinion, that we do everything we are able to do this year to get whomever is the democratic nominee elected in Nov. and give him/her as many democrats in congress as we can.

Our country cannot, I don't believe, afford gridlock. I usually don't like one party rule; it's certainly not worked well recently, but I don't think gridlock, which prevents stuff from getting done, helps now. We need the opposite party to have the votes to move stuff forward quickly, and hope they move the right stuff.


While we here have differences of opinion as to who's best suited to lead us out of this mess/these messes, let us sit back and remember that we all, I hope, share the same goals: getting out of this stupid war, getting our budget balanced, improving healthcare, getting off oil, etc.....

For those of us who've voted, we can only sit and watch. Whomever ends up with the democratic nomination will get my enthusiastic vote for the reasons stated above.

Let us try diligently no to antagonize each other. We are all on the same team, no?

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Jonesy

The United States = a constitution + a body of land + 300,000,000 people. Nothing unites like treason.

Teri B.

I agree JD. I'm SO SCARED we're going to screw this up. We should have had the white house in 2000 and 2004, but they managed to steal it right from under our noses. WE HAVE GOT TO TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE THIS TIME. I'll gleefully salute a President Obama or a President Clinton. Anything else would spell disaster.

jdanton

It would seem that a candidate and his supporters who run on "uniting the country" would be a little more concerned with uniting the democratic party.

I find it difficult to comprehend how anyone who's not happy with where this country is would not do whatever they can to put a dem in the white house, AND AS MANY AS POSSIBLE IN THE SENATE.

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Heretic

It wasn't stolen. True the 2000 process results were wrested away in a court fight, but that's not the same thing as stolen outright. And 2004 was the clearest demonstration of refusal to win.

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