@IanWolfe If the vote is close, you're right, but look up early voting in VA (my state). I believe 100M registered voters (a majority democrat leaning) did not vote in the last election. They are motivated to vote in this one. Millions more people showed up to vote for Obama than for Clinton because he projected hope. We can be inwardly pessimistic, but we need to be outwardly hopeful because defeatism makes people not vote.