There are football games that on paper look predictable enough. Can Boise State beat Oklahoma? Of course not! But somehow Boise State wins. That's why you play the game.
So with elections. On paper, Obama should win in a landslide. 80% of the electorate believe things are screwed up. 8 years of Republican rule, a hugely unpopular President, a candidate who sided with him 95% of the time -- where's the contest? In fact, a part of me still wants to believe in an Obama landslide. Why is this so difficult to understand? To top it off, the other side lies, and repeats lies, with a consistency that is insulting, Orwellian and damn scary. Why is this so difficult to understand? And a VP candidate so unqualified, so narrow in her view of the world, as to keep me pinching myself, No, this can't really be happening. And even if it is, the American people, a majority of them, can't really be so stupid as to elect her. Can they?
But the polls say we're in for another horse race. I suspect, sadly, there will be the usual attempts to keep specific demographics (like blacks) from voting (this has already started, in fact), there will be people bending rules to gain advantage. Elections, which should show our best side as a people, also can show our worst.
Obama by a landslide. Anything less becomes the canary in the mine, the one that stopped singing as a warning to us all.
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