Flying Pink Unicorns

Election day thoughts

1. Martin Luther King is celebrating in his grave. MLK famously said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

America is poised to elect a partially black man president, and not in a close vote, either. Indeed, it it looks like Obama will get more of the white vote than did either Kerry or Gore on his way to winning. That sounds like it qualifies to me!

2. Turnout is apparently pretty high. There have been a long series of anecdotal news reports of really long lines. Bill Richardson has predicted 80-85% turnout in the swing state of New Mexico. John Corzine has predicted 80% turnout in the non-swing state of New Jersey. Long lines in Florida despite a lot of early voting. Long lines in Virginia. Long lines in New York, not exactly a swing state!

The only question is whether turnout will be really high (130 million votes) or enormously high, like I predicted (140 million votes).

Pennsylvania is, unsurprisingly, expecting really high turnout.

3. A GOP affiliated group began running ads mentioning Reverend Wright about 3 days ago. Insane how long it took. This is after a metric boatload of voters voted in the key swing states of Florida, North Carolina and Colorado, among other places. Obviously McCain was fighting tooth and nail against this, but still someone did it anyway. I'm shocked it took them so long.

4. As I wrote in an earlier post, media widely reporting on calls and fliers telling voters that some people were to vote Wednesday. We hear about this every election, and it stinks every time. Doesn't look like too many people are buying it, to say the least, but its still beyond dirty.