As uncomfortable with victory at home as abroad, Democrats freak out at the good electoral forecast many are giving them:

Obama himself has reacted to the dismal drumbeat of good news. At a fundraising concert in Manhattan last Thursday featuring Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, Obama got up and said: “Don’t underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Don’t underestimate our ability to screw it up.”

Which is the prevailing mood in the top echelons of the Democratic Party right now.

And, then there's this from the party that's pitching us one of the least experienced candidates of all time, who is guaranteed to be tested by a created crisis from our global adversaries, according to his own VP candidate:

The Democrats are fearful of all this. The Democrats are always fearful.

Tell us about it.

“We have been on the precipice of victory before,” Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama spokesman, told me. “You have never seen a more superstitious campaign than ours. We do not talk about victory.”

"We do not talk about victory." Pfeiffer, you sound like you're writing for a Palin stump speech. A few more rhetorical flourishes from The One and The Mouth, and you never know...

At the very least, Republicans should be doing their partisan duty by just scaring the ever-loving jodhpurs off their local limousine liberals with tales of impending Rovian tactics on a scale never seen before.