The Party Is Over For Democrats. Now Comes The Hangover.

LOADING ERROR LOADING CHICAGO ― Well, the party’s over. Former first lady Michelle Obama got at this stark reality on Tuesday night, in what was easily the most effective speech of the convention: “Michelle Obama is asking you ― no, I’m telling y’all ― to do something.” HuffPost was certainly a buzzkill at the convention, walking around asking elated delegates and attendees if they recognized, given current polling, that Harris could lose. “That’s a massive shift in a short amount of time.” During a Wednesday panel of pollsters at the convention, Normington noted that recent polling shows women and young voters in particular being excited about Harris. “Let’s give ourselves a week to pat ourselves on the back or reassure ourselves that this is worth going to the mat for.” - Evan Roth Smith, Democratic pollster “Everyone within the campaign and every practitioner still wakes up in a cold sweat,” said Evan Roth Smith, a Democratic pollster at Blueprint, a public opinion research group. “We know this is a 4- to 6-point race.” Still, it’s “extremely important” that Democrats are feeling genuine excitement over the prospect of Harris becoming president, he said, even if the trajectory of the race changes again, which it certainly could.