Yes McGrath, I truly believe we will have a winner with solid, legally verifiable results, on Wednesday, November 3rd, regardless of the voting problems with Diebold, voter intimidation, and the organized voter suppression campaigns by both parties.

We will have those results, because the parties have set up the system to work that way to "prove" legitimacy of elections to allow for a peaceful transition of power.

There are rumblings of very menacing threats coming from the Anybody But Bush camp of hysterical liberals, as to them "starting a civil war" or "spilling into the streets" or "leaving the country" if Bush wins. I don't believe any of it. A lunatic fringe exists on the edges of both political parties. The Republican fringe went into the same hysteria mode over Clinton in the 1996 election. It is par for the course in US national elections in this media echo chamber era. Thankfully, local elections rarely reach this level of hysteria mongering, except in the rare cases like Wellstone's death, when control of the Senate was at stake.

The control of the Senate is at stake this year as well, but thanks to the media echo chamber effect, no one is paying any attention to the Senate races. It is all presidential horse race, all the time, brought to you by the TV & radio media moguls and the advertisers that make them filthy rich. Controversy sells. There is a very mundane, pragmatic reason why this election has been sold to the American people and world by the US media moguls as "the most important election of your lifetime". Market share and advertising dollars. Consumers have bought into the hysteria mongering, and both ratings and advertising revenues are UP for the media moguls!

Controversy sells, even when there isn't one. And this year, like every other election year for 30 years, it is being brought to you by two brands: Democrat and Republican. They have the logos. They have brand loyalties. They have the stage shows to match the stage shows of the news outlets. It's all performance, all the time. In your face, smackdown politics AND YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON THIS ELECTION!!!

None of them give a shit if you vote. They just want you to BUY.