Well, this is it. Election Day. If nothing else it'll put an end to all the speculation about what'll happen if the race is as close as it was last time. Either it will be, and we'll go through all those machinations the press has been gleefully warning us about, or somebody will be elected and the press will have to just shut up about it.

My dad and I don't support the same candidate, but both of us agree on this: We'd rather see the other guy win by a wide margin than our candidate win by hairs breadth. I guess I'd so much like to see a clear winner so that this talk about a "divided America" will stop. It's like every time I see it in print or hear some politico talk about it, the more real it seems. And even if America isn't all that divided, we will be soon if everyone keeps picking apart our differences.

Personally, I don't think that anything about this election can be predicted. I think that there are too many issues that cross traditional party lines and that pundits who have colored in the traditional "red" and "blue" states have done so prematurely. Conservatives and Liberals and people who have never voted before in their lives are fired up. We've already lost the status quo when all those people who weren't registered to vote went out and go themselves signed up. They did the hard part - now what does the media think? They're gonna all stay home?

Hopefully, our leaders will at least see one political casualty: Business as usual, the status quo. Maybe people will wake up this year and see the power we really do have...because you CAN fight city hall, the senate, and even the white house.