Boy, I surely hope you are right. I wish I could be as calm as you apparently are. Frankly I am a nervous wreck. I keep going over it in my head: fewer people voting for BHO this time (check), more people voting Republican this time (check), Independents breaking big for RR (check). How can we lose? Then I read stories on here about how some volunteer helped Carter win Philly in 1976 with blatant and absurd fraud and about the GOP poll watchers begin thrown out and I get nervous again...
The dynamics this election are stronger than fraud.
If Mitt loses - which simply defies all logic - and I mean hard numbers - it won’t be from fraud.
If it’s close enough for fraud to win for Obama, then the Republic is toast.
This is not an election of ‘down the the wire’ ... it’s binary. Either certain factors are in play, and it will be a crushing defeat for Obama, or ... it will be close and Obama wins.
But all, all, all of the quantitative and qualitative ways of looking at this race say it’s the former. I was never as sure as last night when I watched Barrack and Michelle do their final rally - it really was a goodbye speech.
Some argued with me “harumph I don’t see any evidence of goodbye”, and Rush isn’t perfect - but I had to go get some din din for tonite, and he was on and he said “this last rally sounds like ... ... ... good bye” ... for all the reasons I picked up on ... he played some of the very same things I heard and said “Whoa!!!! They’re not even hiding it well.”
But don’t get hooked on little details in tonight’s reports. If something weird is operating in the universe, of course O could win ... but if it’s not, it’s going to be a blowout. What it isn’t, is a horse race.