Just fucking vote

Fuckin' A, 110 percent...

There's a lot to be nervous about going into tomorrow's midterm elections...like basically the future of this experiment that we've been conducting surprisingly well for the last 242 years.

Like...will there be a blue wave?

Can we win the Senate?

What if the blue wave doesn't materialize?

What happens to the Mueller investigation?

What will the election's outcome mean for 2020?

In the end, try to remember that even if we don't win as many as we'd like, if we win just one more seat in the House than they do we can effectively end much of the Trump agenda (cuts to Medicare and Social Security will be dead, dead, dead).  Or that every governorship we win means that there's one more state where republicans will not be able to gerrymander its districts to their own advantage.  And that even if we just break even in the Senate, it still means republicans are going to have to tailor their agenda to make sure they can get 51 votes.

It's a cliche, but this is a marathon, not a sprint.

So don't get caught up in the future--fight the battle that we can fight tomorrow.

And just fucking vote.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Don't believe the hype

Most important election of your life

There is a subset of Democratic supporters who are convinced that sharing their hand wringing and the rending of their garments over recent polls that show the midterm elections tightening will drive more people to the polls in fear...but I'm not as convinced as they are.  As often as not, it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the negativity ends up dragging us down.

Fuck the media--they're not interested in interpreting polls, they're interested in selling newspapers and getting people to watch their news shows.  And right now they're cherry picking poll results so they can do just that--they want me to be reading their newspapers over the next two weeks and being up at 11:30 pm watching Rachel Maddow on November 6th worrying over whether or not we'll win back control of the House. 

Let me remind you that the last two midterm elections that resulted in waves--2006 and 2010--the media was telling us that the election was tightening in the days before the the actual votes got counted...and both of them ended up being much bigger waves than the polls were showing.

Am I confident we will win?  God, no.  But I'll wager that the odds we win a solid majority in the House (and I wouldn't rule out the Senate--no one thought we'd take it in 2006 and a few upsets led the way to just that) are much better than that the republicans will retain a slight majority. 

There's enough of us who believe our 242 year experiment is worth continuing, and not nearly enough of us who want to turn it over to fascism.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee