THANKS, AL GORE

After all the adventures of 2000, we'll never have a "normal" election ever again.  If Obama wins, there will be questions of voter fraud, ACORN, stacking-the-deck with "early voting". If McCain wins, thousands of lawyers will be mobilized to claim the election was "stolen"... and it'll get much worse. The difference is this: If McCain loses a close one, he'd likely avoid a drawn-out legal challenge ala Gore, stepping aside to led Obama lead. I don't expect that to be the case if it's the other way around.  And speaking of early in-person voting: Stop it in the future. Election day should be,well, on election day. Other than the time-honored tradition of using absentee ballots, America should vote when it's the all-important day.  Both parties use early voting in ways that would make the Founding Fathers cringe.

GOTTA READ IT: Thomas Sowell's excellent article on "Ego and Mouth" (scroll down to link)