Glad DU is back, but it may have been a blessing...

... that DU got hacked when it did. It would have just been even more painful.

I'm still not looking at print or broadcast news. I've gotten to the point of skimming Google News headlines.

Anyway, glad DU is here again.

Predictions of "crappy weather" in Mich and Ohio don't seem to be panning out.

That's good, right? Any reports from those states?

How is CNN covering Philly?

I switched to CSPAN when they cut away from Chelsea. Just wondering if a main stream network will spend the whole evening on this wonderful event.

The audio comes and goes for me. Anyone else?

Will there be any information about...

... how much all these great last day rallies may or may not have affected turnout? They certainly excite me, but I didn't need to be excited to volunteer or vote. It's hard to believe all this energy didn't get some folks off their couches. Will we ever know?

I've been wondering if ALL of the motivated Trump...

... supporters, the ones who will actually go to vote, showed up at his rallies. And that's it. The others are gonna sleep late and decide to go to the bar instead.

How do they measure excitement anyway?

AA early voting from the Clinton internal polls.

CNN just showed Colorado tied. Upshot's polls don't suggest any such thing.

Does anyone have an explanation?

Let's listen to Jimmy and Bill and Barack and Hillary.

I assume we all think gridlock is bad - especially with a Democrat in the White House. But we're never going to get beyond it if Democrats become a new version of Republicans. A thread appeared this morning that illustrates the hostile, black and white, interpret-it-the-worst-way attitude that will prevent us from achieving legislative goals. The link is below.

I've always been proud that to me there seemed to be more "good" people in Democratic leadership than Republican. Not that they don't exist in the Republican part, but not so much any more. By this I mean people willing to look for the common ground behind their oponent's hostility. The second link shows Obama, just yesterday, sending the crowd to school about how to deal with a hostile oponent.

The third link is a snippet from a Hillary speech, highlighting what I think she had always believed, but which she woke up to a bit more after the Michigan primary defeat. I wish I could have found her comments at a fund raiser where she urged the audience to look beyond the anger of (at the time) Bernie supporters to the underlying causes of their frustration

I wouldn't know how to look for links showing Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter modeling this same thing, but I know they did, because I remember being proud of them for it at the time. It would be super if someone had such links, or even just quotes.

We have terrific role models, for ourselves and for our children. Let's pay attention.

Reaching out to white guys thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512586828

Obama teaching us how to relate to a Trump follower

I've seen a lot of encouraging stories about minority early voting.

I'm wondering if anyone in Trump land is pushing early voting stories for Trump's side. It's all rather dizzying and I do hear contradictory stories about Dem early voting (it's up! it's down!), but nothing about Republicans one way or the other. Any thoughts? Just curiosity. I'm NOT "concerned."