Here are some off-beat things to watch for tonight:
- Matthews and Olbermann will tear up when it gets called (which will be after a couple of key wins in VA and OH and others) and it sinks in.
- All eyes will turn to Georgia: my guess is that there will be two close races there, P and Sen.
- Because of the early call, the male after-work vote out West will be dampened, putting MT and ND within reach (I say they both go blue).
4 And this will cause AZ to be close. We will come within a hair.
- MN-Sen is my biggest worry tonight (I am confident that Obama will win by 9% nationally and we will get 60 in the Senate, with the possibility of a 61st after the run-off in GA).
- Fox News has been supplanted by MSNBC in terms of opinion making and viewership. Period. Fox won't come back until they break a scandal with legs.
- When the media's kid gloves come off, they will get McCain's end-game right: McCain hoped that the racism of voters would carry him to victory in PA, IA, NH, ME, MN, WI, NC, VA, and others; McCain was wrong. Through prudence or financial fear or just plain decency, America rose tonight.
- Watch the financial scorecard. Make sure the bailouts due to the financial meltdown go on W's report card. We should beat the MSM silly until it reports the standing of the US debt ($13T?), unemployment rate and rate including the unemployed who've given up on finding a job, and all the other facts. Let us know the vast wreckage of America... before Obama and the Dems begin to correct it.
- If anyone says 'Presidents can't do anything about the economy,' let him hide and watch. The stock market has been rallying, in part, in anticipation of an Obama/Dem win. These guys know that without a thriving middle-class they are all bookies in Fort Lee. A good President can inspire confidence about the future, and that means economic expansion.
- We are all so tired, having spent so much money and time and effort in this great fight. Even Obama is starting to look tired around the eyes. But, if he can make the army of volunteers he's led during the campaign transition to start working on correcting the wreckage left by W., Obama will join the ranks of the truly greatest leaders (FDR, LBJ, AL, TR, GW, TJ) America has ever had.
My money's on Obama for that.