Let the polls poll away, and the pundits punt (The NY Times today: "Has Obama Peaked?").

The surge in new voter registration, his charisma and ability to impress even in a crisis as with his race speech, the flocking of supers to him, the commited dels, the popular vote, the states won---- the idea that the race might go to Sniper Girl or Hundred Year Geezer over all these facts and perceptions is mostly a product of our anxiety that he's almost too good to be true, and that historically, they shoot heroes.

I pray for him and for the possibilities before us, of course, but never will doubt this country's need for him or my belief that he's meant to be president.

Irrational-sounding to some, I'm sure, but that belief is borne of a conviction that millions believe as I do.