I've avoided this huge thread, but thought to take a look-in in honour of Canada Day. This last page alone reflects much the same conversations being had elsewhere on the internet, particularly in various science blogs. The campaigns are monstrous engines throwing up all sorts of dirt and detritus, most of it from deep in the candidates' pasts and likely irrelevant to what they think, believe or plan now. The latter is what is important, IMO.

From the looks of it, though, Obama will be the next American president, and it looks as if he will continue the current practice of pretending religiously based organizations will use government money in a positive secular manner, and therefore continue to support such doomed initiatives.

How his government will relate to Canada is a mystery. I'm not sure Canada has ever crossed the man's mind, barring that little NAFTA eyebrow raiser. Obama is still right of centre, AFAICS, on many issues settled leftishly years, if not decades, ago in Canada, despite our current God-bothering PM (who knows he'll lose the next election if he lets any of his religious lunatics off-leash).

Good luck, neighbours.