The Penultimate Day

One day before the crux of what has now become the only news-worthy discourse of the last four years, and I have found a new toy: a website called 270toWin. By clicking on the various states of America you can tot up the immediate totals for either candidate. What's strikes you first is the amount of land, in real terms, that remains red even though an Obama victory remains likely. If you turn all the toss-up states red, just for the sake of hypothesis, McCain is still lagging behind the magic number. My most positive accounting returns a landslide - 396 to 142. I recommend turning to Slate's final election scorecard, or Pollster as sources of reference for which states you can, or cannot turn blue. Either way, however, it's a game with only one outcome: an Obama victory. All reliable sources confirm this in even the layest of terms. Whilst I'm here, the term "intellectual curiosity" has been thrown around a lot in recent days, mainly dubbed as a positive characteristic of Obama, yet I doubt this would have ever been so externalised had it not been for the monumental ignorance of Gov. Palin. Is she seriously going to stand for the Veep without having faced a press-conference at all? Staggering.