[wbill]

could have been any of our candidates,

I'm not going to relax on this election, but you're right. It doesn't matter who the republicans put on their ticket.

This is 2008 redux. Back then, Bush hatred was so great that the Dems could have ran a cigar store Indian (they did for Governor in my state, NC) and reasonably expected a win.

[Sudetenland]

"I'm not going to relax on this election . . ."

Amen! I am not in any way implying that we can or should relax. My assertion is based on the assumption that Republicans will turn out en masse to throw Obama out of office.

I'm thinking more like 1980, but without Reagan's natural charisma . . . Mitt wins, but not quite as handily.