Wow, for the first time, all of the polls on Real Clear Politics' short list are showing Obama. Gallup still has him with an unrealistically high 11% lead. FiverThirtyEight has Obama at better than 90% chance to win.

Why doesn't any of this comfort me?

I'm sorry, but that looks very fake to me, and totally ridiculous. Of course if you search for it all you get are anti-Obama sites. Can't wait until it's debunked somewhere...

Well, speaking for me, I'm not comforted for two reasons: Gore and Kerry.

Thanks, really, but I have plans tonight...
 

This afternoon I went to pick my kids up from a play date set up for them by their dad. They were playing at a person's house I'd never met before, someone my ex knows. He dropped them off there, I picked them up.

The neighborhood is a in an old section, but very nice, and next to the oldest country club in town. When I got to the house I noticed a McCain lawn sign. When I got to the door, the lady of the house was on her cell phone, talking about the Women for McCain party she is hosting tonight. While I stood there waiting for my kids to put their shoes on and pick up the mess they helped make in this woman's living room, I heard her say a variety of disturbing things during her phone conversation.

First, I heard her call Obama, "Osama".

She was not being facetious, she sounded deadly serious. She said "Osama refuses to put his hand on the bible. It's because he is a Muslim, you know."

She went on to say that George W. Bush is being nailed to a cross by the public. There is more, but it's just more of the same.

If it hadn't been so horribly nauseating, it might have been sit com material. She sounded like Gladys Kravitz, in fact.

She invited me to her party tonight. Yeah. I'm on my way out the door riiiiiiiiight this minute.

Funny you should mention this. I was just on the phone with my Mom a few hours ago, and she went to a Women For McCain party (in Pennsylvania) a couple of days ago. She is a lifelong Republican, but she was very put off by the ridiculous and baseless barrage of Muslim rumors and fearmongering. When she went to leave, she was offered some signs to put in her yard, and she turned them down. Now, she is much less certain of how she wants to vote. (She is also no fan of Palin, and has been less than thrilled with the McCain of the last couple of weeks.)

I tried ever so gently to nudge her over to the Obama side, but she just sighed and said, "I don't know what I'm going to do." She then said she wishes she could vote for Bill Cosby.

Except Gore and Kerry never had a lead like this.

Obama's lead has me hopeful but I'm still hesitant to rejoice just yet...

If a 90% chance of victory isn't enough to make you feel better, I don't know what is. :) It's not so much Yes We Can as Yes We Are...

I hear ya. But I'll be completely happy when his win is official.
:)

Well you already voted. Does it seem more unnerving because now you just have to wait until everybody else does?