For the last six weeks, the Pennsylvania primary has been looming. The last big state.
I really, really wanted Obama to win.
Here is what I did to help him win:
I donated a few times.
I worried incessantly.
I checked DailyKos every few hours.
And Obama lost.
There are a lot of diaries today on why Obama lost. Kos himself details many of these reasons beautifully here.
It was the media. It was the negative attacks. It was the machine. It was failing to pay walk-around money. It was demographics.
Look, all of these reasons are valid.
He is out there killing himself. His staff must be exhausted. I read the diaries of the phonebankers and the canvassers in Pennsylvania, and applauded their efforts. I truly believe in people powered politics. And I didn't help.
If worrying were votes, Obama would have won by a landslide. And I believe in the community that is fostered here at DailyKos. But, no offense to the people here, obsessively checking in here is like masturbation. It does nobody any good but myself.
I know that Obama is not a Muslim. I know what Reverend Wright was really saying. I know Obama loves this country. But Obama already has my vote.
"I have two young children." "I work full time." "I'm not good at cold calling." "People in Pennsylvania don't want to hear from a latte-sipping liberal in Seattle." Excuses all. Starting Saturday, I am calling voters in Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon.
I don't want to be posting on DailyKos on November 4, listing all the really valid, understandable reasons that Obama lost.