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I told you so. Actually, I told you twice.

And now, even the Paper of Record is admitting that it’s a load of crap.

It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.

Those of you who believed it: You think you were in good company? No excuse. Not if you read this blog. I have a pretty fine-tuned bullshit detector. I have been taken in by exactly two hoaxes since I started blogging. And I only wrote about one of them (the naked paintball hoax). Next rumor that comes along, you just might want to wait before hopping on the bandwagon. Especially one as obviously fake as this one.

Or maybe you should just believe me when I tell you you’re falling for pure bullshit. As for Fox News and MSNBC: They should be ashamed. But you know they won’t be.

I told you those stories were pure bullshit. And here is your proof, via Hot Air.

I talked to Steve Biegun, the former Bush NSC aid who briefed Sarah Palin on foreign policy, and he considers the leaks against her on the international stuff “absurd.”

He says there’s no way she didn’t know Africa was a continent, and whoever is saying she didn’t must be distorting “a fumble of words.” He talked to her about all manner of issues relating to Africa, from failed states to the Sudan. She was aware from the beginning of the conflict in Darfur, which is followed closely in evangelical churches, and was aware of Clinton’s AIDS initiative. That basically makes it impossible that she thought all of Africa was a country.

On not knowing what countries are in NAFTA, Biegun was part of the conversation that led to that accusation and it convinces him “somebody is acting with a high degree of maliciousness.” He was briefing Palin before a Univision interview, and talking to her about trade issues. He rolled through NAFTA, CAFTA, and the Colombia FTA. As he talked, people were coming in and out of the room, handing Palin things, etc. She was distracted from what Biegun was saying, and said, roughly, “Ok, who’s in NAFTA, what’s the deal with CAFTA, what’s up the FTA?”—her way, Biegun says, of saying “rack them and stack them,” begin again from the start. “Somebody is taking a conversation and twisting it maliciously,” he says.

Still believe it? Or can you admit that Sarah Palin is not as stupid as you’d like to believe she is?

Since two of my commenters have now posted links to the ridiculous Fox News story that makes Sarah Palin look like a brain-dead moron who’s barely smart enough to dress herself, let alone run for VP, let’s take a look at, gee, the actual facts.

A longtime aide to Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is lashing back at anonymous critics within the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, telling ABC News they are attacking the former vice presidential candidate with distortions.

Meg Stapleton offers an explanation of some of the more stinging criticisms that have come out in recent days since the McCain-Palin defeat.

Regarding the $150,000 worth of clothing the campaign bought Palin, Stapleton says a New York stylist was given a blank check and told to go and make Palin look presidential.

As to the charge that Palin is so stupid that she doesn’t know Africa is a continent: You can read for yourself how it was a verbal slip in the article. Or you can read these two paragraphs from a chat with the Washington Post reporter who wrote a profile of Palin:

Anyway, I’m curious to know if, in addition to her former coach, you tried to speak with any of her old teachers. What kind of student was she? What kind of grades did she make? How did she score on her SATs? Her athletic accomplishment and prowess as a huntress are on display here, but I would hope that there was something else that set her apart from her peers back then. Perhaps not. Perhaps she was just an ordinary, hard working kid.

Sally Jenkins: Good questions. I don’t know her SAT scores, but she was an honor student in high school. The Heaths didn’t tolerate poor grades. Her brother Chuck Jr. brought home one D, and it was like, the worst grade anyone ever got. His father read him the riot act. They were good high school students, very disciplined. Beyond that, I don’t know. I did talk with one of her college roommates, Kim Tillyy Ketchum, who was surprised to discover how sort of keen Palin was when they took a Political Science class, and another revelation was how unintimidated Palin was in a public speaking course.

We are asked to believe that Sarah Palin worked her way up to governor of her state, beating the incumbent, but she doesn’t know which nations make up NAFTA—in spite of living in one, and governing a state that borders a second. We are asked to believe that Palin is so effing stupid, she thinks Africa is a country. That’s right, honor students in Alaska aren’t taught anything at all about Africa the continent vs. Africa the country.

I think that anyone who believes this crap is telling us far more about himself than about Sarah Palin. It’s like a Rorschach test for non-critical thinkers. and people who fall for email scams.

Yeah, tell me again how you believe the reports because she’s “intellectually lazy.” But first, prove it. Not with a few minutes of interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson. Find me evidence. Because right now, I’m calling bullshit on these lies, and frankly, calling anyone who believes them , well, let’s just use the phrase “intellectually lazy.”

Let’s start the official countdown, and while we’re at it, let’s start a pool on how long it takes the media to become disenchanted with Obama.

Does anyone think it will start before he takes office? My guess is they’ll wait for him to become president, then slam him as his promises don’t come to fruition by, oh, June. Wait. When are the first 100 days up? Then.

I really don’t feel like being gracious on McCain’s loss.

I wasn’t gracious in 2000, when George W. Bush “stole” the election from Al Gore. And even though I came to believe that he didn’t steal it—notably after even the New York Times recount showed that Bush won Florida, and I started saying, “Y’know, if Gore had won Tennessee, he’d have won the election”—but I wasn’t gracious then.

I doubt I’ll be gracious now. I’ve never been a good loser.

Am I happy that an African-American is going to be our next president? Yes and no. I still don’t believe Obama is qualified enough to be president, and frankly, I’d be much happier if I were celebrating the first female president. I’d be gracious for Hillary, I think, because of that. In fact, if it had been Hillary, odds are high I would have voted for her in the end. In which case, there’d be no need for graciousness.

So if you’re looking for me to take the high ground, well, you are on the blog that has a category titled “Juvenile Scorn.” And one called “Evil Meryl.” Perhaps you may want to look elsewhere for the grace in defeat. I don’t think I’ve ever had that quality.

Hillbuzz:

If we came together as Democrats and Republicans in 2008, why can’t we remain cooperative in 2009 and all years going forward? All of us are willing — will you join us? We won’t agree on everything, but if we keep looking for common ground, and starting there, we bet we’ll accomplish more together than anyone else has in a VERY long time.

Everyone at HillBuzz saw first hand that Republicans are good people who love this country — they differ than us in some matters, and those are strong differences at times, but at the end of the day, when America needs them, Republicans stand tall and answer that call. Democrats like us feel that way too. We might be a little different culturally, but we are all Americans.

We will no longer ever stand for Republican-bashing in liberal Democratic circles. Democrats can and should disagree with Republicans respectfully on matters of policy and practice, but the emphasis should be on respectfully. No more rancor. No more name-calling. No more hate. We now have Republican friends we want in our lives for keeps. And we would never allow anyone to talk badly of our friends. We’re so proud of Senator McCain and Governor Palin and the campaign they have run. We genuinely like them both, as well as all of their supporters who’ve stopped by here at HillBuzz. You can count on us to tell any Democrat who starts partisan namecalling that, “Hey, we know some pretty great Republicans, and you’re talking about our friends there. Disagree with them, but then tell us how you think we can work together to do what’s right for America.”

We just hope some of you out there start doing the same thing for Democrats, in your own circles.

This we can do. Just don’t ask us to do it for the Obamacrats.

I thought Virginia would pull it out. But the blue counties in NorVA were too much to overcome.

Looks like Obama is going to be the nation’s most inexperienced president ever.

And I promise to give him just as much respect as the Daily Kos denizens have given to President George W. Bush these last eight years.

On the bright side, I’m going to have tons of material to blog about. Are you ready for King Obama the First?

Meantime, back to work for me.

I’m going to do my “I was right” dance about Virginia.

As of this moment, with 30% of precincts reporting, McCain is up by 118,000 votes. Fairfax hasn’t reported in yet. That’s a big one, with about half a million votes. But so far, it’s McCain country here in Virginia.

Treacher was right. Via Marc Ambinder:

A New York City-based Obama home phonebanker who’s been making calls through the MyBO.com hub to PA and VA says he just received this e-mail:

Friends — Barack needs your help now — our data indicates that the results will be very close in many states. I can’t emphasize enough how urgent this message is. Please go to my.barackobama.com/call and start calling as soon as you can. We are not going to hit our goal of 500,000 calls for today by 3pm Central, unless we get at least 2,000 more people calling for the next hour. Can you call now and continue for as long as you can manage? Thank you. Judith

Obama’s worried.

McCain is hopeful.

Virginia is going to stay red. Will McCain get Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana as well?

Make calls for the McCain campaign. It’s not over yet. Click here.

Did you vote yet?

Less than two hours left in VA. Get yourselves to the polls, please.

How important is this statistic for a red victory?

Hampton Roads: The region’s hefty black vote is keeping Obama competitive there. So, too, is a narrow slice of the region’s military vote — for example, families angry over multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, McCain is pressing his natural advantage as a war hero with the state’s 800,000-plus veterans and the more than 200,000 active-duty military and civilian defense workers.

I think it’s a key reason why Virginia remains red. Add that to the Republican makeup of the state—a Democratic candidate hasn’t won since Johnson—and that’s why I say the polls are wrong.

I say McCain takes Virginia.

So go do it.

And whatever you do, DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE EXIT POLLS.

They were wrong in 2004. They won’t be any better now.

Name a single major accomplishment of his that does not include running for office.

Just one.

What laws has he helped pass? Who has he helped? What, exactly, has he done?

While he was “writing a letter” about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s problems, John McCain was writing legislation—that was not supported by the Democrats.

Vote for John McCain, who has a lifetime of accomplishment. Or vote for the man who has been running for office nearly his entire legislative career.

Your choice.

This is why Hillbuzz is working for McCain:

We truly believe if all of us continue to work as hard as possible tonight and tomorrow in get-out-the-vote efforts, and if we control the Eeyores in our midst and prevent the Obamedia from depressing turnout in our ranks, that McCain/Palin will win tomorrow decidedly — 286 to 252 in the electoral college – and we PUMAs will stand proud with all Republicans and Independents who joined us in this fight, because that’s what it really boils down to for us. We’ve been trying to stop Obama and his socialist takeover of this country for almost two years now. Living in Chicago, we KNOW who this man REALLY IS, and know how bad he and his policies would be for this country. So, the way we see it, Republicans are OUR REINFORCEMENTS, not the other way around, because Hillary’s Army has been giving this effort our all this whole time — with the rest of you coming on board since the start of the general election.

So, our perpsective is well-informed, as our daily lives have been consumed with this campaign for much longer than yours. Some of us have given everything we have to this cause, and many of you out there have helped us in every way you can (and, frankly, there’s no way we could ever thank you enough for doing so).

Another good friend of mine moved from Chicago to the northeast. He said exactly the same thing to me—months ago, before Hillary lost the primary to Obama.

Vote McCain. Don’t bring Chicago politics to the White House.

From Hillbuzz again, the former Hillary voters who are now working their asses off for McCain, come these words of hope and cheer:

We don’t want to beat a dead horse here (or, donkey, as the case may be), but we need to remind you all, once more, not to be Eeyores today.

The Obamedia is going to do to you what they did to Hillary supporters during the primaries — they are going to lie, and float all sorts of incorrect exit polls, and start revving up to declare Obama the winner.

Drudge Report — mark our words — is going to run that flashing red/blue siren he loves to report McCain losing all sorts of traditional Republican states around midday. He’s going to get all of you Eeyores hyperventilating.

The goal of the Obamedia is to depress you so much you don’t turn out to vote. Our friend Astrid always falls for this garbage, and we know she is not all alone. She’ll be miserable all day because she’s never learned to turn out the media and just chill out.

This is going to go down just like Super Tuesday – where the media claimed Obama would win California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and others…but Clinton won every state we predicted she’d win.

In fact, we were right about every state in the primaries except Missouri, which Clinton lost by less than 1%. Otherwise, we were spot-on.

Let’s get out and vote, and ignore the news reports. If my fellow McCain voters do their job, Obama is going to have a big-time sad face on about 11 o’clock tonight.

Here’s an up-to-the-minute election blog from the Richmond Times Dispatch. Way to go, Richmond!

7:50 a.m. — Voters report that Precinct 308 in Richmond, at a Richmond library, opened late because a poll worker overslept.

Way to go, electronic voting machines and the Godwin district!

7:29 a.m. — Henrico voter Audrey Belford, who experienced the machine problems at Godwin, reports: “I arrived at 5:15 and was about 10th in line. When the polls opened at 6:00 I would estimate about 3-400 people were there. Of the 7 voting machines, only one was working. Apparently they are wireless and only one “found” the signal. I was able to vote within about 15 minutes and the poll officials were considering offering paper ballots as I left. If the machine malfunction were not worked out, I can only imagine what a mess it is by now.”

8:54 a.m. — The voting machine problems at Godwin were due to a problem in the machines’ wireless communication systems, registrar Mark Coakley said.

He attributed the problem to human error.

I’m going to vote in a little while. I’ll be back with a report.

It doesn’t matter what the polls or the news say any more, it’s time to get out there and push the lever for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

This is who I’m voting for.

If you have an elderly neighbor, offer to drive them to the poll. Make sure they know who you’re voting for. You never can tell—you might be able to swing a vote or three for McCain.

(Bumped)

Gallup is calling the presidential race for Obama, two days before the final vote is in. McCain, Gallup says, will need a miracle to win.

While only 4% of voters remain undecided in Gallup’s unallocated likely voter model, the final poll estimates that a slightly larger 10% of likely voters still have the potential to either change their mind or make up their mind. Even if McCain converts the vast majority of swing voters, victory for him would be highly unlikely since 51% of likely voters say they are certain to vote for Obama compared with 39% who say they are sure they will vote for McCain.

Well, considering that if their poll is wrong, they’re going to look like complete asses, what with polls being their raison d’etre, you’d think I wouldn’t argue with the facts here.

Yeah, well, call me Meryl Quixote. Because there’s an element that this entire election is riding on that no one can give me a satisfactory number for, and it affects every single poll taken. This, in one line, tells you whether or not these polls are accurate:

In the final poll, 38% of U.S. adults identified as Democrats, 34% as independents and 26% as Republicans. Among likely voters, the figures are 39%, 31% and 29%, respectively.

What is the actual representation of voters in the United States? Because poll samples don’t matter one whit if they don’t accurately represent the people who are going to vote.

So the real question is: Does Gallup have an accurate representation of voters, or is this their Dewey Beats Truman moment?

I can’t find a source that I trust to give me an accurate count of Republican voters. Pew says it’s only 27%, but that’s the number of voters who self-identify as Republicans, not the number of registered Republicans. Look at the Gallup figures above. Those are also self-identified, not actual numbers (and they’re different from Pew’s numbers from March).

This is why I don’t trust the polls. Well, that, and the fact that it’s been proven over and over again that people will tell pollsters what they think they want to hear. In other words, people lie to pollsters.

I think I’ll wait until Tuesday night before I declare a winner. Virginia is far from settled yet, and the other swing states are close. It’s going to be a race. Doesn’t matter who gets the popular vote. It’s the Electoral College that counts. Obama can’t intimidate them the way he intimidated the Democratic superdelegates this year.

McCain voters, get your asses out there and vote. And try to convince at least one friend to vote, too. Five if you can.

Just imagine the look on Obama’s face as he gives his concession speech. Surely that’s worth your trying to find five friends to vote McCain with you.

This is where Meryl was last night:

This is what we’re told the polls are saying about Virginia:

And this is what the Richmond Times-Dispatch says this morning.

Times-Dispatch poll shows tight race for president in Va.
The presidential contest in Virginia is heading toward a photo finish.

The final Richmond Times-Dispatch Poll of the campaign shows Sen. Barack Obama at 47 percent and Sen. John McCain at 44 percent. Nine percent are undecided — an unusually large slice of the electorate. The profile of undecided voters suggests that some are potentially opposed to Obama.

Because Obama’s advantage over McCain is within the poll’s margin of error — plus or minus 4 percentage points — the contest in Virginia can be considered about even.

And this is what I was told yesterday at the Cantor rally: McCain is within one and a half percent. Undecideds trend against the frontrunner. Virginia carried Bush in 2004 and in 2000. Virginia is still a red state. Don’t believe the hype.

We are being lied to by someone. Many someones, actually, with an agenda, and that agenda is to keep McCain voters home on Tuesday. Don’t listen to them. Get out and vote. Especially if you live in a swing state.

There are many reasons to vote for McCain. What puzzles me is why four out of five of my fellow Jews are going to vote for Obama.

Sammy Benoit has a piece up on Israel National News that my Jewish readers should read in full before they pull that lever for Obama on Tuesday.

Here’s only a part:

So, how can Senator Obama be pro-Israel and have so many anti-Israel buddies? Well, one prominent Palestinian-American will tell you that Obama is hiding his true feelings toward the Jewish State.

Ali Abunimah is a pro-Arab journalist and founder of the Electronic Intifada website. He will tell you that Senator Obama is full of crap when he says that he is pro-Israel: “If disappointing, given his historically close relations to Palestinian-Americans, Obama’s about-face is not surprising. He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected.”

Abunimah says that Obama has long been a friend of the Palestinian community, but he knows where the money is. He has changed his position because those in the pro-Israel camp (American Jews?) have the money to get him elected.

Read it all. Obama is not going to be a friend of Israel. He is going to raise your taxes. He is going to weaken America’s defense in a time when we are fighting two wars.

He refused to acknowledge the surge was working until it was absolutely undeniable, and even then, called it “surprising.”

He is trying to buy the election by going back on his pledge to use public campaign financing. He is using Chicago politics to try to win the election, as he has done his entire career. He has, in fact, done nothing worth earning my confidence that he can lead this nation. He has never led more than a committee meeting. I don’t trust this man to be my Commander-in-chief. And I don’t trust him to shepherd America through the hard times we’re seeing on the economic and international fronts.

John McCain is a centrist, as he has always been. He has trended to the right because he needs the Republican base to vote for him. Obama has trended towards the left because he has always been hard-left. The only thing we truly have to judge him by are his actions these last two years, and the associations he has developed in the past. Neither of them give me any hope that he will move to the center once he’s elected.

If you are afraid of Sarah Palin and not voting for McCain because of that, I would remind you that George W. Bush has similar religious views as Palin, and we have seen no leaning towards theocracy as a result of that. Nothing happened to Roe v. Wade under a Bush Administration. We’re not praying in the schools by government fiat.

If you can’t bring yourself to vote McCain, then choose a third party candidate. I’d rather see you throw your vote away than vote for Obama. The man is nothing but a facade, and he is unfit to lead.

Via Jim Treacher, word not to give up quite yet. (Also from my friend Lynn, who talked me into calling my local McCain HQ and volunteering some time.) From some still-angry Hillary voters, we have the reasons why Obama isn’t quite the anointed one yet:

If you, collectively, can keep Republicans and other McCain voters from falling for these, we believe there’s nothing Obama can do to win this election. The ONLY way McCain loses is if you Eeyores allow the media to keep you from the polls.
Head Games Coming Your Way:

(1) Calls for McCain to just give up and quit, because the race is over. This one is a favorite of the trolls who lurk on pro-McCain sites. We get them here, despite all the spraying and fumigating we do, but notice how we ignore these trolls. We’ve identified two paid Obama staffers who have been assigned to HillBuzz. We picked them up around the same time people from Ace and LGF started picking up some of our stuff — so our guess is they were assigned to us by whoever was monitoring those sites. They’re different trolls than the ones assigned to us during the primaries (we only had one back then, so evidently we’ve gotten more on the radar now). One of them starts posting “her” concern troll remarks here at 8am. The other one starts “his” remarks around 5pm or so. It appears there are two shifts for the trolls — and from what we can see, they share the same computer and IP address. And it’s an address right here in Chicago. Imagine that.

Yeah, imagine that. Dirty politics from Chicago.

Don’t be Eeyores on Tuesday! Get those Eeyore butts off your couches, away from toxic TV, and GO VOTE. Get everyone you know to vote — tell them if they don’t, then Obama will turn America socialist, and we’re going to start with their house and bank account when we begin redistributing wealth. That should motivate them.

(2) Wild claims of Obama winning states that shock and surprise you. Since Obama believes there are 57 states (maybe 58 or 59, depending on how he’s counting that day), the Obamedia will report huge wins for Dear Leader in the states of Confusion, Denial, and Undress, with Atlantis, Oz, Hopetopia, and Leningrad all going to Obama early on November 4th — because everyone loves Obama so much, that places that don’t even exist have voted for him (with 100% of the vote of the dead, cartoon characters, and historical figures going to Dear Leader in unprecedented numbers). The best example of the Obamedia making up lies like this was on Super Tuesday, when every Eeyore we knew ran through the streets crying and pants-wetting, gnashing their teeth and yanking their hair as the sky fell around them — BECAUSE OBAMA IS WINNING CALIFORNIA! MASSACHUSETTS! ARKANSAS! TENNESSEE! NEW JERSEY! NEW YORK! WAAAAAAAAH! DOOOOOOOMED!

But wait. There’s still more.

So, when you see the Obamedia doing all of this to McCain, please know they are crying wolf again. Don’t let that demoralize you!

(3) Repeated insistance that blacks and young people will decide this election, and they are all going to vote in record numbers for Obama. First of all, black voters have always voted Democratic in massive numbers. We don’t think blacks have ever voted for Republicans in any substantial way in any race we can think of. Blacks vote as a race-bloc, and they always vote for the Democrat. Maybe Obama will get blacks who have never voted before to vote for him, or blacks who don’t bother to vote on Election Day to show up and vote, but we doubt that it will be very many people. Black voters were highly motivated to vote in 2004 because they felt George W. Bush stole the 2000 election, and they saw that as a civil rights issue that increased black turnout to one of the highest levels we have ever seen. Remember, Jesse Jackson almost won Election 2000 for Gore but was stopped by the Gore campaign, in the form of Donna Brazile. Watch the HBO movie Recount. Jackson felt the Florida Recount was a civil rights/voter disenfranchisement issue at its heart, and wanted to press that to the public. He revved the black community up and flew down to Tallahassee, but Gore and Brazile made him get back on a plane to Chicago. That was a critically stupid move…and you know how the recount ended.

So, in 2004, THAT’S what the black community thought about, and THAT’S what made people vote to kick Bush out of the White House, for stealing it from Gore in 2000. We just don’t know what people are left to vote in the black community who didn’t vote in 2004, when they were revved up to vote against Bush — a president the black community hates.

But here is my absolute favorite quote from Hillbuzz:

We also feel young voters are the Holy Grail of election delusions, because every Democrat, every election, claims “young people love me and will come out in record numbers to vote for me!”. Well, let us just tell you that early voting ended today in Chicago. In our building, there is a suite full of about 6 frat boys who sometimes stop us in the laundry room to talk politics. They are all hot DePaul hockey players, so we are glad to chat them up any time they want. All of them said they were going to vote for Obama, and all of them forgot to early vote. All of them have class and work on Tuesday. We honestly believe all 6 of these guys are going to forget to vote on Election Day — and the polling station for our neighborhood is literally one street away. We think this will happen not just with the hot hockey players in our building, but in many other buildings in Chicago, and in cities across the US.

As you move out of urban areas, it becomes more of a challenge to get to polling places, as they get further and further apart. That means college students, and Obama’s youth army, need to move further and further out of their daily norm to actually vote. With class, work, and Nintendo Wii, that becomes a big burden, especially since they’re going to whoop it up all Halloween weekend having an absolute drunken blast, and will have a lot to catch up on come Tuesday, since Monday they will be still hungover and not functional.

This is actually an argument not unlike the one I used for the past year while Lynn fretted that the new voters being registered—mostly young voters—would swing the election for the Democrats. And then I remember that when I went to college, fully 80% of the students couldn’t be bothered to stop at the voting booths in the student center they walked past on their way to the cafeteria for lunch to vote in the student government elections. And they’re keeping up the same statistic in the real world: In 2006, only 22% of voters aged 18 to 24 voted.

And if that isn’t enough to make you feel better, I called my local McCain headquarters today and asked about the mood, among other things. It’s very upbeat. Everyone there thinks the polls are skewed. And I’ll be seeing Eric Cantor tomorrow afternoon. (I guess he’s not an Orthodox Jew.)

Think I’ll go to the Sarah Palin rally tomorrow night, after all. She’s in the next county over, near my friends’ house. I’d ask them to come, but they’re voting Obama.

He guarantees it.

Go ahead. Vote for Obama. Because that’s what America needs, a weak leader in a time of a two-front war.

Go read Treacher.

Just scroll down and keep on scrolling.

Jim, you should be wearing a short skirt and carrying pom-poms. You’re making me think that the election isn’t over yet.