Well,

Say that it is 6 weeks from now or so, and that following fundamentals hold up:

1) What played in Chicago stayed in Chicago.
2) What's not good for GM is not so bad, after all, for America.
3) President-elect Obama meant what he said when he wrote the Audacity of Hope, so that, in fact, it would be safe for the President-elect to say:

"Ah (I) did not have politics with that man!", to paraphrase the last great Democratic Presdent.

I have yet to check the Rapture Index, but these are bad signs, aren't they?

Christian Monks have at it in Jerusalem:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7718587.stm

Riots in front of the Icelandic legislature, incidentally, the single oldest continuous democratic government in the Western Hemisphere, btw:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-143003

What next?

Of course, if these were your tax dollars, they would not give a crap, but this is "GOP" money:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-palin6-2008nov06...

Well, it's been almost 24 hours now since the Obama victory. I am pleasantly surprised that we Dems have not found a way to hork up our victory already.

So, in my never ending search for hard statistics to help me understand life, and in the spirit of, say, (Senator elect?) Al Franken, I bring you Yet Another Thing For Democrats To Worry About (YATDWA):

Turns out, we are nearing end times!
http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10859913

As you can learn from this article, Obama is generally not considered to be the Anti-Christ, (Phew)

CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. recent survey suggests older Colorado voters are moving towards Obama:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/poll.wednesday/

I would love to know if this is occuring outside of the North Denver-Boulder axis of Birkenstocks and tofu based cuisine.

Many Americans mistakenly think that voter suppression, gerrymandering and the like are modern phenomena, that there was a golden era before, say, Nixon or the like. Sad to say, dirty tricks are as old as the party system and the American press. Todd Smyth catalogs the history of GOP tricks here. Worthy reading, if you do not want the same to occur in 5 days.

http://gopdirtytricks.blogspot.com/

Make no mistake, the Dems have had their own history. One reason I like Obama so much is that he seems to succeed in spite of not answering dirty trick with dirty trick.

Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! radio program is always a good way to get your adrenaline pumping. Here's a particularly spooky story about the REAL VOTING FRAUD. Bottom line, you are advised to bring a video camera to the polls!

http://i3.democracynow.org/2008/10/29/lawsuits_machine_malfunctions_and_...