It's as though we were an extended family in which half adore and admire the prospective new son-in-law. And the other half are convinced he's a rapist and murderer.
"... Certainly, national and swing state polls suggest that Democrats might allow themselves a deep breath or two. But liberals are not inclined to relax, given the circumstances of their last two defeats. Hanging chad, the Supreme Court decisions, and Florida and Ohio’s electoral problems: it is a lifetime of agita to staunch Democrats. The prospect of success now comes scented with dread.
"Conservatives, it must be said, are not immune from the worry vapors. Therapists report that Republicans are hyperventilating too. 'Wealthy Republicans are very anxious about taxes,' Jamie Wasserman, a psychotherapist with a practice on the Upper West Side and in Montclair, N.J., said of her patients. 'They are not pretending to vote for the black man.'
