America is going to do the right thing. No longer will our country fall victim to the politics of fear. Not this time. Not this election.

President Barack Obama...Don't you love the sound of that!

Obama/Biden

Just got my Obama ticket!!!!

And the White Wash Troopergate findings exonerate Palin of any wrong doing. The investigation she launched against herself and handpicked the investigator...

Releasing it on the very eve of the election so all news reports could run with "Palin cleared of Troopergate wrongdoing" without explaining that this was the second finding and that this is the one she controlled.

Those are some phenomenal numbers. I saw Ambinder report that the Obama camp was hoping to be even in Ohio heading into election day and right now they're up by more than 100K. In 2004 that was about the difference between Bush and Kerry.

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O/T ---What a shock! MSNBC reports that the investigator for the Alaska Personnel Board has cleared Palin of any wrongdoing in TrooperGate.

His essential parent of his teenage years dies 24 hours before the polling day opens. This particular candidate at this very particular point and era in U.S. history.

Preordained? The Ancients would be all agog at such a scenario. Someone is trying to make me not an agnostic, draw me away from the atheism I adopted in the jungle in Vietnam.

Like Chekhov, I estimate talent, artistry, the idea of the individual, and truth. Most of all I have come to admire the next U.S. president. After all that has happened over the past eight years, how truly fortunate we are!

Hank Williams Jr. is now spouting off about Obama not liking the national anthem now at Palin rallies. Hand and Joe the Plumber should cut a proud-to-be-ignorant red neck duet

i have lived in chicago for the past 4 years, got to know obama from his first senate campaign. yesterday I was sent on a business trip to dallas for the next 3 weeks. It was bittersweet reading this over at fivethirtyeight.com:

“And I swore I’d be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn’t give a damn, just as long as I’d be in Chicago tomorrow.”

– Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”

So for all who made it to chicago tomorrow, celebrate for those of us that had to leave or for those who couldn't make it.

That's right Oh, and Fuck Ken Blackwell.

The head of our staging area operation referred to the county in which I live as a bellwether for the state of Florida.

If that's the case, McCain might be in trouble here with respect to his ground operation.

On our different routes home from work today, my sister and I saw disheveled men, who, to our eyes appeared to be amongst the homeless in our area holding up McCain signs at major intersections. It was a surreal specter.

If the McCain campaign is indeed recruiting our homeless population, this is no small irony. Sadly, these guys often stake out these intersections anyway. It probably makes little difference what their sign says as long as it brings in a little money.

If my sister and I are right, the incongruity is unsettling.

For anyone who wonders why you shouldn't trust the exit polls this year, go back up to the post and look at how the Obama voters who voted early far outnumbered the mcShame voters. But exit polling (tomorrow) will be done with a different electorate, which has mcShame voters outnumbering Obama voters. That's in the early voting states of course. So that difference between the early voters and the voters tomorrow skews the exit-poll results in those states. And thus makes for nonsense if you're trying to understand why people voted as they did or why people of differing demographics voted as they did.

I'm sure Nate at 538 will give an excellent explanation of this and other exit poll factors. But you can get it glimmer of it yourself just using the data points gathered above. And then thinking out for yourself how this will skew the statistics - based upon this strange voter sample.

Why bother exit-polling at all if voting extends over weeks from now on? Even the polling they've done during the actual early voting can influence the voting that's going on. Again... makes no sense to me. (that would be the same as announcing the results of exit polling throughout election day!.... which they don't do, for that very reason!)

I have a feeling future polling will change as a result of this very election.

I gave- first time ever to a political campaign!- but did not volunteer. And so on election eve I want to offer a huge, heartfelt "thank you" to all those of you who have done so and are doing so through tomorrow. You are true patriots and the rest of us owe you, bigtime.

I just read an article in the Charlotte Observer that said they have about 2.5 million early voters so far, which is something like 41% of registered voters...

Obama will take about a 10-12% lead going into tomorrow's election. That's a hefty amount for McCain to overcome.

I can't believe I'm saying that about North Carolina. What a year.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/politics/story/296324.html

The McCain commercials on Monday Night Football are relentless, all those 527s burning their last funds. I just saw three in a row, all the lies lined up like antique grenades that forgot to go off.

I hope we all understand the significance of having 100,000 souls on a late Monday night in red colored Virginia. Freaking very cool!

on the topic of early voting and getting out the vote, i wonder/worry if the great weather, enthusiasm, and large increases in newly registered voters aren't going to combine to create serious problems at the polls today. plenty of states, especially 'battleground' states, don't have any form of 'no-excuse' early voting...

i'm getting ready to go work the polls @ 6am and i'm expecting a clusterfuck. the city has tried to accommodate the anticipated turnout but 4 years ago voters at my precinct waited in line for 3 hours to cast ballots...

and waking up at 3am to find the power out in my neighborhood hasn't helped my anxiety. half my precinct was without power. paranoid as i am, i had to drive the neighborhood to check the extent of the outage (and check against armageddon... )