I was scared of placing too high of hopes on this race, just in case we lost.

I know exactly how you felt. I kept feeling rising hopes, especially after seeing posts on AJStrata’s blog, but wouldn’t dare even whisper them, for fear of jinxing the whole thing.

Although they were far different races, the feeling mirrored that on the election night of November 1980, when I went into it dreading another four years of Carter and then watching that tidal wave of color for Reagan. (I don’t recall if they used the same colors we do now; red for republican and blue for democrat, or vice-versa).

What I DO recall is the tremendous feeling of relief, as if an enormous weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

THIS time, the weight was less, but the feeling is still the same, because of what it implies. (I know; Alan Colmes was arguing that night that “This is NOT a referendum on Obama.”, but I think he is whistling past the graveyard.

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