I did not complain about George Bush being President 8 years ago and I will not complain about McCain. Then again, I voted Libertarian in 2000. Will you say the same about Obama?

Go read the Hillbuzz link in my previous post, and you’ll see a bit more.

The newest polls make me, if not optomtistic, then less pessimistic than I’ve been in some weeks. We had a state proposition in 2006 that was branded as racist because it called for the state to treat everyone equally, without regard to race or sex. The last polls showed a toss-up and it won 58-42. Of course the editorialist and columnists considered this the hidden racist factor but my guess was at least as much could be ascribed to people who were just tired of being called racist when they opposed affirmative action and kept quiet.

It would be interesting to know which of these polls is by telephone and which, if any, are not.

The support isn’t really that firm for the one – I’ve persuaded at least a dozen “Obama” supporters to re-consider (or outright on the spot change their minds) by asking one simple question – to tell me why their voting for Barry (without telling them who I favored). They usually give some sort of hopey/changey boilerplate, and become very thoughtful when I mention things like the credit card fraud, the Biden guarantee of a ‘test’ (usually with a reminder of how spectacularly Carter’s foriegn policy blunders have worked out for us), or when I mention that Barack was a footsoldier creating the sub-prime mess, or the 110 million flushed through CAC with no improvement in Chicago schoolchildren’s achievement levels (without even getting into the radical nature of the ‘educational’ agenda being pushed), or the Tony Rezko housing/money trick circus – hell, I usually only have to toss out a couple of items from the list to ‘make the sale’.

And this has been over the past couple of months – before most normal (i.e. non-political junkie internet blog rat types) really have begun to pay attention.

And as they pay attention, the bloom comes off the hope-n-change express rose pretty damned quickly.

If even a small portion of the MSM has an Anderson Cooper ‘oh crap what have we done’ moment, and these aspects receive even a modicum of coverage (not that it has yet) at the last minute – Barack is toast. In Virginia, and in a lot of other places, too.

But how is that accurately reporting the simple fact that every single Virginia poll shows Obama in the lead is tantamount to an agenda to keep McCain voters home?

4 years ago, you and I covered the Richmond area elections for The Command Post. This year, we might be stepping on each other’s toes again on election night.

Bill Clinton was supposed to win VA by 4 points; he lost by 4 points to Bob Dole. Each successive election’s polls have underestimated GOP votes by 7%-8%. The state might be a touch bluer this year, but if the polls show Obama with a 1%-3% lead, he will lose VA on Tuesday. The only way he wins this state is if the voter suppression tactics of the MSM work.

Get everyone to vote.