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If you eliminate the polling over the past 4 years, nothing really strange is happening - and nothing that is about to happen would seem out of place. It will play out as it was always going to play out.

Other than fake polls and fake narrative, all of the evidence - all of it - points to the simple conclusion.

What doubt I've had - is 'can the media be even sort of right? Are human beings THIS STUPID?????' ... instinct says no. But it's tough to be against any collective hypnosis. Ras and Gallup know the truth - but even they are hiding in the herd - at the fringes on the side of where things will go - but still hiding.

The real fight is just about to begin.

Dead on. I believe the Tea Party - a reaction more to GW and GH - a proper moral inventory for Republicans ... more than it was a reaction to liberals, although liberals by implication, had this commitment - and were looking inside the party for blame, rather than without. Frankly, I didn't, when they started.

As Republicans and Conservatives (and non-crazy liberian constitutionalists) ... we always knew the intellectual concept of that against which the Constitution is a warning, but this is the first time I really smell fear in the air - that it stopped being a mere debate, and starting being a real fight

I predict this is the last stand. It will work, and it will maintain the Republic for another 20 or 30 years, but demographics doom the current physical incarnation of freedom. Freedom will remain, but I do not believe it's next rebirth will be 'these 50 states' ... there won't be much blood, then next will not a peaceful but a revolution of ideas.

There will be a relatively peaceful secession/split, newly drawn Constitutions, one of which will deeply resemble the original except that it will include some lessons in the form of more protections of individual liberty that take into account modern leaks in the foundation.

The other Constitution will last the other faction a single generation or two, at which time the nation will re-unite after mass population exodus (the prototypes now are CA and MA.)

There are broad cycles in the history of man, especially in his relation to government and governing himself. It is unwise to get lost in the detail of those cycles that peaked in revolution, and attribute the revolution to the details of the story (Slavery, Taxation without Representation, that which the Magna Charta sought to solve) ...

The issue is always enslavement of the individual by the collective, and that theme will never leave mankind.

This revolution will not be caused by 'those liberals going to far' ... it's source will be demographic trends. There is a dynamic in the US and the west which runs deeper than, and is one layer abstracted and more powerful, than the inter-generational swings in the country's political leaning.

So yes, the fight has just (on Wednesday) begun (or been resumed) - but only for this segment of the match between freedom and enslavement, but ultimately between good and evil.

The incarnation, the physical appearance, the manifestation ... of freedom ... will not in 4 generations be the USA as we know it. But it's underlying principals will be the same, and it will be an improvement, and it will lift up the rest of the world.

It's just wise to remember the bigger picture - to stick to eternal principles rather than momentary manifestations.

For many years, the Republic will be able to withstand the demographic and migratory shifts. But not for long - not for more than 2 - 4 generations. This is not a 'defeat by the liberals' as they like to call it in their short term analysis of political trends. But they are right - the death of the west is nigh. That's the bad news. The better news it it's time for the 'West' to shake off it's baggage and renew itself. It was never about 'the West' ... it was about the principles.

And, though we are conditioned to think so - not all revolutions are bloody - although the commitment will rise to that of being prepared to bleed, which is the very commitment that will avoid blood.

I believe the next revolution will resemble more what the Free State Project sought to accomplish.

But hell - that's not for many years to come - in the meantime ... we all need to savor the fact that there can be no loss when the principles are eternal, or God's. I believe that while Mitt is not an improvement on Reagan, the wave that is lifting Mitt, and the repudiation of Obama ... the principles and cyclic as well as cumulative forces at play in this election are simply purer, wiser, more concentrated and ultimately more enlightened than in Reagan's day. There is more (and deeper) capital 'T' Truth operating now, merely manifesting as 'this election.'

So it's all good :-) Only meant to write a sentence or two. Sorry for editing errors ...