I also donated up until the end.
I agree that there was just some plain craziness on here toward the end, with supposed “internal poll” leaks showing the race tied in California.
I kind of knew the whole internal poll thing was something of a smoke screen anyway when McCain’s pollster said their internals showed the races in battlegrounds to be a “functional tie”, which he later defined to be within the margin of error.
As for the direction of the party, wow.. what might that be? No one can seem to agree on that, what with social cons, fiscal cons, neocons, Green Granola Cons... a big tent at each other’s throat. The various contradictions held together during the 80’s, united in response to the soviet threat, in the 90’s united in response to Clintonism, and 2000s in response to the War on Terror/Iraq. Now, there is nothing to unify the various factions. And some factions just want to run the others out of the party entirely. The Dems seem to do better as a party of contradictions and competing interests.
I confess to believing that if we averaged within 2-4 points final poll that we would win possibly.
I also never believed that conservative thing on the internals
and I thought Jews would go higher
and that there were PUMAs
and that Mac would carry Catholics
and that GOP would at least match 2004 turnout
but after Monday polls I was down....way down and told my dear wife who was pretty depsondent as well as other family members that I suspected what I had feared since late September was now going to happen
the eventual tightening just never really materialized, it feinted was all
man..watching polls 24-7 in this day and age ain’t fer sissies is it?
you’re right...we don’t even really have any big leaders except some older Senators, a few governors and some folks who talk to Fox News
there is no face aside from Palin now whom Im adore but can she recover?