re: #12 KGxvi

Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and North Carolina are going to be tough defenses for the GOP. What little polling there has been thus far is showing tight races in places we wouldn’t normally expect, including McConnell’s own race. Hell, Purdue in Georgia against a generic Democrat is only running at 35%. The field might be much wider than we would normally think. Trump’s historically unpopular and there seems to be indications that this might be one of the highest turn out elections we’ve seen in living memory.

I’m choosing to be optimistic, perhaps overly so, because the alternative is just too damn depressing.

During a phone conversation last night, a friend insisted that if he ever exhibits any taint of optimism, I have to slap him (metaphorically speaking) to bring him back to reality. But as you say, reality is too depressing. Maybe we should consider that we aren’t living in the Depression nor in the depths of WWII — that life has been far worse here for most people even if the President has never been this vile or treasonous. Of course, my “upbeat” (///) mantra has always been — nothing is so bad that it can’t get worse.