Relax and treat it like the Super Bowl. No matter how loud you yell at the TV and no matter how much money you bet on it, you can't change the outcome.

The only difference is that with the election, if your team loses, you're screwed.

Yes, but telling the police that a "black man" robbed and beat you at an ATM and then carved a "B" into your forehead after he saw the McCain sticker on your bumper, as a McCain volunteer is alleged to have done and has apparently confessed to, is going way too far. McCain's supporters are following right along with the real Republican platform: fear and smear

"how Palin faked her pregnancy?"

Release her medical records and end the debate

Actually, I see this one as sort of beautiful. Here you have Obama drawing every possible toxic little spew of venom from these right wing snakes, and it doesn't appear to be working. I heard Hannity say if Obama gets elected he will bring his terrorist associates to the White House. I heard that one myself.
Of course there are some people who even believe Obama is a terrorist based on the right wing talk machine.
But it just doesn't appear to be enough to deceive America this time.
The numbers who see through this talk machine have grown. The evidence of conservative incompetence is just too great. Nobody has screwed up this much in the history of the world, so their BS is falling on deaf ears. This is actually quite encouraging.

Rush Limbaugh has been talking like mad for 15 hours a week, but he can't even take the weekend off. He has to fire off an email to counter Colin Powell's endorsement - claiming it's all about race, and this went right to the Drudge Report. There was a time when these moves would have been enough. They were enough to put the worst president in history within striking distance of stealing the last 2 elections. But they're not enough anymore.
Not against Obama.

My latest favorite sign of desperation is when the righties try and say all this bad stuff is happening to the economy because Obama could be elected. They're trying to assign the blame on the future, because they can't deal with the fact that they've stunk up the joint for 8 years now. That is deep comedy for me.

All these old toxic moves just don't appear to be working anymore. That's a wonderful development for this nation. Perhaps if we get past the people who damaged America so badly - the little phony chicken-hawk patriots of the conservative movement - why then we can begin to try and save the country. I'm actually hopeful right now.

I abhor the nasty end game. But the graceful, thoughtful manner in which Obama has run his race deserves respect. His calm demeanor and his willingness to offer up intelligent discussion rather than misdirected blather have impressed me every time I've heard him speak. He confronts racism, both overt and latent, at every turn, yet never turns bitter or angry. While McCain lurches about in desperation(picking Palin, suspending his campaign, Joe the plumber, etc.) Obama has been a rock. And he inspires hope rather than generating cynicism. We need him for so many different reasons.

The grubby stories, or dark hints of stories, come at us from every angle. Obama was born in Africa. Palin faked her last pregnancy. McCain's cancer is back.

It'll be nice to see it end, however things turn out. Unfortunately, the next campaigns will begin in about three weeks.

"how Palin faked her pregnancy?"

Release her medical records and end the debate.

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Release the original copy of Obama's cert of live birth and end the debate.

Is that why he went to see Toots?

Garage Wine: ...you can't change the [election's] outcome

Karl Rove would probably disagree with that assessment.

I must say that even though I will be voting for McCain, and even though I do think Obama will be bad for this nation; I'm very tired of the campaigns. It seems like it has gone on forever. I'll also be a bit happier when this blog is able to move (with the rest of the nation) beyond the politics. I'll be hunkering down for what I fear will be four nasty years coming up, but it would be nice if I were wrong.