HELP IS ON THE WAY!!

for these problems to start to be addressed. Projects the inevitability, but keeps the anger and fire stoked.

People who greatly fear they will lose generally find some way to do so.

And now it is time to amplify that fear in Trump, for that exact reason. And as he flails wildly the Republicans who have joined themselves to him at the hip will go down with him. Feed their panic with our confidence, as we unflinchingly take the fight to them all across the nation.

but I agree.

But I can't count how often "we" collectively implore each other not to get over confident about a Biden win. The standard line is "act as if we are down ten points in the polls". My point is that expressing overt confidence in a Joe Biden win, and counting down the days remaining of Trump's failed leadership, is actually an effective campaign weapon against someone like Trump, when the public has already turned on him over Covid-19 in particular. It brands him "a loser", "a dead man walking", a "failed experiment", and I think those are labels he will be unable to get out from under, that will help to pull him and those who enabled him, down. Now we are fighting for Democrats running for offices everywhere in our nation, so that the needed rebuilding can begin.

Republicans fear what the polls tell them, because they indicate that the voting public doesn't want them.

Democrats fear what the polls DON'T tell them, namely what measure of electoral fraud the Republicans have put in place to negate what the polls tell us. Purged voter rolls, closing polling stations, making sure voters who show up in the "wrong" precincts have doubly difficult times getting permission to vote, seeing the machines change their choices (or, worse, NOT seeing it when it happens). Surprise electoral upsets on the national level in the last 20 years have just about ALL gone to the Republicans. Whether governors' seats, seats in the House or the Senate, or the White House itself, no surprise upsets have gone to us. If that is a coincidence, then I'm the Sultan of Brunei.

To paraphrase Stalin, I do not fear the results of the vote. I fear the results of the counting, because I think that, in the immortal words of Rep. Peter King, R-NY, "we'll (i.e., the Republicans will) take care of the counting." I think they plan on just that, and on a level no less pervasive than when they did it in 2004, when King had downed one too many and let the truth slip on camera.

But as is oft said, the best defense against a stolen election is a strong degree of public certainty about who was far ahead before the counting begins. Even with all that many Republicans are capable of doing to secure "victory", they still are forced to concede defeat in many elections that they really wanted to win. There have been plenty of examples of that happening since 2016.

That is one of the advantages of oozing optimism about the upcoming Democratic wins, it primes the public to expect those victories. The more momentum we can establlsh the safer the election will be for us. And if the public knows in their bones that Trump is going down hard, then his post election claims that only massive vote rigging gave Biden the win will fall flat on his orange face.

....Joe's chances but maintain that that's only half of the battle. We need the House and Senate with big numbers as well as some serious coat tails that affect everything from state legislatures to local school boards. Your point about the the last ten days is a good one. He's not going to resign before election day, but keep the pressure up and watch as he sabotages his own prospects with the crazy.
Someone ask The Lincoln Project if they're sorry they didn't run ads in 2016.

Keep your head down and keep on swinging.

"Don't stop at the top
Vote every Democrat!

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Every single time anyone on DU suggested, in the run up to the 2016 election, that it was not a sure thing for Clinton we were berated, called concern trolls, etc.

We turned out to be right - and that attitude contributed to Democrats voting for third party candidates, voted Republican in the primary to ensure that Trump would be the candidate because he would be so easy to beat. As unbelievable as it that any sentient being could support him, he still has an unshakable base. 115 days is an eternity in politics for him to regain those who are temporarily awake - I have two friends just this week who have declared they are voting either for Trump or at least against Biden.

We cannot afford to act as if we have won this. That was our strategy in 2016.

That's why I always put bumper stickers on my car and yard signs in my yard. Sometimes seeing an abundance of bumper stickers or yard signs is enough to sway some people. There's a well-known psychological phenomenon that people want to be on the winning team. And people gravitate to and follow strength. I know it's happened to me in the past. There have been times when I've been out driving and said, "I'm seeing a lot of bumper stickers for this guy. Maybe I should check him out and see what he's all about." There are many good reasons to project strength. That's why, for all its good intentions, it still kind of bugs me when I see people constantly warning us not to allow ourselves to get complacent. We get it. It's a good reminder that we still need to do the work. But still let's project some strength.

It's about time we stop being afraid of our own shadows.

It's not a sure thing by any means, but when our side starts pulling on top, we don't stop. It's time to get super-aggressive.

We win elections by being confident and aggressive. The Lincoln Project's teaching us that. But it's not exactly in our long-term interest to rely on our political opponents to win our elections for us, so we need to become our own Lincoln Project.

There's blood in the water, my beautiful sharks!

FEEDING FRENZY!!!!!

Over-confidence can be deadly here, since 2000 and 2016 both show that a simple majority of voters can be defeated by the antiquated electoral college

We really need a blow-out, so that we can capture both the House and the Senate on coat-tails

We should all fight as hard as we can to make sure Trump has the greatest defeat possible. His meltdown when #LoserTrump is trending on Twitter will be epic.