There are TRUE IDIOTS on both sides that say they “know” they are going to win.

[eman926]

I just talked to somebody today of whom we are helping out on the Trump campaign with. She said she “KNOWS” he’ll win. To me nobody “knows” who’ll win. To say that you think that a certain individual is going to win is one thing, but that you “know” who’s going to win is just plain ridiculous. Yes, she’s politically MOSTLY on my side, but there are morons on both sides. The only way that one could “know” what’s going to happen in the future would be that if you’re God. And what’s worse, she said it’s going to be a landslide! There is such a thing as being overconfident and/or cocky! And there are way too many people on both sides that believe they are going to win and way too many (though not as much) that believe that their side will win in a landslide. I think (but I don’t “know) that a landslide is very unlikely. Even Dinesh D’Souza said that we shouldn’t conflate what we want to happen with what we think should happen, because if we keep doing that one day we will be VERY DISAPPOINTED. I think more people should try being realists and not-so-much as idealists.

 

[Emily L]

Eman, I suspect that a lot of people who are "certain" that their candidate will win really aren't all that certain. They're trying to sound confident, thinking that others will join the bandwagon and vote for the candidate so as to be "left out." It's kind of like saying, "Hey, try out this drug, man--everybody's doing it!"

I'm afraid that technique probably works, or else so many people be wouldn't doing it.