Latest 538 shows that even if McCain gets all the Tossup votes it won't be enough. This presumes that the Lean, Likely, Safe electoral votes hold as projected.

Heh. Someone posted this in today's Gene Weingarten chat:

I was pretty confused about who to vote for until last night. I don't really buy the idea that either major candidate knows what to do about the economy, and that's the biggest issue for me. Neither of their health care packages appeal to me either.

But I read something last night that made my mind up for me. We already knew that the Obamas were getting their girls a dog after the election, regardless of whether they won or lost. Last night I read that Jill Biden had promised her husband a dog as well, but his dog was contingent upon winning. So if the Obama/Biden ticket lost, Joe Biden would not get a dog. Not only would he be a loser, he'd be a dogless loser. That is the worst kind of loser.

Therefore, in the interest of making sure that guy gets a dog, I'm voting for the Democrats this afternoon. I am no longer undecided.

I would laugh and laugh if he ended up being Secretary of State to the new administration after being squeezed out of Bush's. And I'd honestly be hard pressed to think of anyone more qualified for the job.

Dick Lugar, possibly.

I seriously think that the Traditional Old School Conservatives need to start a new party free from the Moron Majority Cultural Conservatives.

Totally. If I were an actual small-government, states' rights conservative, I would be running so fast from those other Republicans, I don't even know. Luckily, I think the tide may be turning away from the Moral Majority types.

It is deeply unhealthy for me to sit at my computer all night, right? I'm sitting here smoking and reading and at this rate, I am going to burn through a couple of packs before midnight.

Ugh. And I think I ate too many soy-wasabi almonds, too.

I don't think I have a book compelling enough right now to divert my attention (and that's a craxy-talk statement right there.)

100% of Americans now believe the country is moving in the right direction, based on a survey of cats that are purring loudly in my lap.

I'm sitting here smoking and reading and at this rate, I am going to burn through a couple of packs before midnight.

Crap! I'm totally going to have to go out for more cigarettes.

This is what it's like to live with someone with ADD:

Ohio polls close at 7:30. It is now 6:57. The Boy has not yet gone to vote, because he is still "researching the issues."

I'm trying SO HARD not to scream at him at the top of my lungs.

I would laugh and laugh if he ended up being Secretary of State to the new administration after being squeezed out of Bush's. And I'd honestly be hard pressed to think of anyone more qualified for the job.

I've seen Chuck Hagel suggested.

I seriously think that the Traditional Old School Conservatives need to start a new party free from the Moron Majority Cultural Conservatives.

This occupies a lot of my political cogitation. After the debacle of the current President, the moderates, Federalists, intellectuals and financial conservatives really needed to get the party balance back from the social conservatives. I figure that was a lot of the appeal fo McCain, who wasn't in the social con camp. But since then, his campaign has gone hard into that territory, the economy is killing the GOP specifically on the financial issue, and post-election the remaining Repubs in Congress are going to be more heavily dominated by the social crowd.

Given the numbers of moderate, or simply thoughtful, Republican figures who've been declaring for Obama, I'm starting to think some sort of party split is not impossible. (Of course, if the Democrats do overplay their hand, opposing them is likely to keep the GOP unified.)

I was surprised at the lack of a line at my polling place after work. I guess everyone voted before getting off work today....