my dad became a Michael Moore-on. Believes it all. Before the election I told him it was clear Bush would win decisively, that he was closing in on 300 electoral votes and that Daschle would near certainly lose because the left had become so hateful and vitriolic. He thought such speculation was so proposterous he could only presume that I had become indoctrinated by some weird cult or something. After the election he sent me a picture of a campus in Florida that Michael Moore was at on election day noting "looks like Jeb stole the election again for Dubya" and I wrote back not to worry, that Michael Moore had been at that school and, at the time, he was interviewed there on MSNBC and, given the errant exit polls led him to believe there was nothing to worry about, he proclaimed that everything there was fine and everybody got to vote, etc. but that I'd warned about the left going so overboard as to have endangered Daschle. I noted that was ok, though, because, given all the hatred they'd espoused, the Republicans did pretty good again, picking up more house seats and another handful of senate seats ... (which must have been particularly painful because he'd previously told me the DemoncRAT Senatorial Committee was his favorite "charity")