Things for those of us with nothing better to do than look from the outside in and watch the Bachelor with a pit in the stomach waiting for tomorrow is to try to read tea leaves beyond the endless parade of polls.
Some people use numbers and facts and demographics and sophisticated political history analysis to determine what will happen tomorrow.
I choose to use Dr Phil-style psychology and cheap political guessing game.
One famous tea leaf is where the candidates spend Election Night but even if IN was close, it probably makes sense for Obama to spend the time in NC since it would take quite a stunner for him to lose the state altogether.
So that does not really count.
For the record, HRC will be in Indianapolis and Obama in Raleigh.
One other is who goes aggressive and negative on the last day. Surprisingly, it is Hillary who is doing all kinds of negative mailer/robocalls/a more agressive ad in IN. It is not as pronounced as in the previous states (no 3am ad this time). But obviously her internal polls are picking up on the Obamentum the public polls seem to hint at, however slight that momentum may be.
One final tea leaf I can think of tonight is the expectation game. And I have to say I am stunned the Obama camp - and I am sure there must be things said behind the scenes - does not seem to have played the public expectation game this time - unlike OH/TX or PA.
Nothing. Not a word. The Clintons taunted them by reminding them of the leaked spreadsheet showing Obama winning IN. But there was no response.
It could be read a thousand of ways but it seems to me to be an interesting sign of humble confidence. I guess it could be caution but they could at least try to pushback on the idea that IN was a toss-up (same as PA but with less AA as Al Giordano said) or, I don't know, downplay NC, just in case.
But they don't (and notice how Obama did not push himself too hard in NC showing that they are really confident about it). Without jinxing it, I see it as a good sign.
I may be proven wrong. But I guess the tea leaves this time show both sides to be cautiously optimistic that they can get close in the state they are shown losing. However Obama is showing more confidence about his winning state than Hillary is about hers.