With traditional labels obsolete, this election throws our politics into a new ideological landscape. My take, now posted opposite.
COULD IT BE ANY CLOSER? Gallup finds a dead heat in its final poll:
Using voting behavior data from previous elections, the Gallup organization attempted to estimate how the undecideds would vote Tuesday. The result was a tie of 49 percent each for Bush and Kerry, with 1 percent for Nader and 1 percent for other candidates. In the history of polling, Gallup has never come out with a tied race in its final pre-election estimate — just one more footnote for the history books in a history-making campaign.
I hear all sorts of different things – how the Bush internals are looking good, how the Dem GOTV operation is on fire, etc etc. But I doubt anyone really knows how this will turn out. What’s clear is that this country is so far reluctant to give an incumbent war-president in a good economy a clear new mandate. I think I know why.
YOUNG, RESTLESS, KERRY VOTERS? A Zogby poll of twenty-something cell-phone users finds a big Kerry lead. Have these people been adequately factored in to the current polls? Who knows?
The Dish 