The omens point to a Kerry win: the Redskins lost on Sunday, and Indian astrologers say Kerry's planets are rising and Bush's are in eclipse.
Leaving the realm of pure superstition for indicators only slightly more concrete (or not), the stock market is down over the past two months, consumer confidence is below 99, gas prices are through the roof, and most people say the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Forty-one newspapers that endorsed Bush in 2000 have now endorsed Kerry. We have Eminem trying to get out the hip-hip vote, and Howard Stern trying to get out the "Fuck You" vote.
And yet the pundits, damn them, still point to signs that say Bush could win. It seems that defeating the president during a war just seems like too much of a concession to the enemy for a lot of people. Cokie Roberts, my most-hated-windbag-of-all, said on NPR this morning that the undecided vote is breaking for Bush because of issues like "leadership". Leadership? Who the hell is following? Andrew Kohut of Pew Research said on The Newshour that the Republican GOTV game is a match for the dems.
How many hours before it's over? Will we know by midnight tomorrow? At times like this I hate living on the East Coast; it'll be late here before returns start coming in in the West. By the time I voted for Carter in California in 1980, the networks had called it for Reagan.
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