This isn't going to mean much to anyone unfamiliar with Tucson, but this morning on the way home from an appointment, I decided to drive through a residential neighborhood in the Foothills. The Foothills is an upscale area that tends to vote heavily Republican and very different from the upscale areas in the city that tend to vote heavily Democratic.

I was shocked. The Obama/Biden yard signs outnumbered the McCain/Palin yard signs eight to one. I had no idea this was going on in my own back yard.

I've been convinced that McCain would take the state even though it might be close, but this morning, I'm not so sure. Right now, I have no idea which way Arizona will go.

I agree with your opinion of the Bradley Effect in this election - I don't think it's there. First of all, that election was more than 25 years ago in a state where its conceivable that some people lied to pollsters. My sister and brother-in-law lived there at the time and I remember them talking about it - especially my brother-in-law who was in advertising and was very interested in the discrepancy.

In 2008, I think if people didn't want to vote for Obama based on race, they would conjure up a rationalization to vote for somebody else. The reverse Bradley Effect makes more sense to me this time out even though I don't think we're going to see much of that, either.

I've been saying for months that the only color this election is about is green - creating jobs in the clean energy market which will also help replenish our capital markets along with tax cuts for the middle class.

Green, baby, green.

Tucker Bounds is another reason to vote Obama.

and they're hard pressed to think of anything.

Your screen name speaks volumes about your character. One question: are you a floater or a sinker?

Interesting that you're supporting Nader since you're clearly unsafe at any speed.

Congratulations, you may singling responsible for convincing Nader to not making another run.

He sounds like a cross between Ignatius J. Reilly and the comic book store owner on The Simpsons. Dollars to donuts he spends Sundays annotating the New York Times in the margins.

Hola Amigo!

Finally, November 4th - I'm taking off in a few minutes to vote for the next president of the United States, Barack Obama, at my polling station here in Tucson, Arizona. I don't care if the line goes for blocks down the street and takes hours.

Good to hear from you, dude!

Yes, Republicans, do it, do it, do it.

The Onion rocks. I remember pulling my copy of The Onion out of my mailbox during the campaign in 1996 and the headline read Area Stoners Mistakenly Hold Massive Pro Kemp Rally.

Funny stuff from a not-so-memorable campaign season.

If I take a can of tuna fish, open it, remove the tuna fish and replace it with cheese, is it still tuna fish? The label says it is.

Republicans have grown the government, given us astronomical deficits, deregulated us into near collapse, and mired US forces in Iraq with no exit strategy. (In fact, there was no strategy at all, only a series of objectives and tactics.)

They're lost. If Eric Cantor and Sarah Palin are what passes for a leader in the Republican party these days, they're in really bad shape. They sure can talk the talk but they walked it off a pier.

Personally, I'd like to see Al Gore remain on the outside lobbying openly for clean energy. When you have two people as politically disparate as Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens making direct appeals to the people to demand that their government support energy independence through green alternatives such as wind, solar, and compressed natural gas, it's clear that it isn't going to be easy to break the stranglehold the petroleum industry has on this country.

Electing Democrats represents a good start toward all the work that needs to be done to undo eight years of serious damage. We have to remain as active as we ever were over the last decade in order to effect some monumental changes.

When asked why he wasn't he described going to a meeting and "getting cornered by a seventh grade math teacher who wants to talk about privatizing the sidewalks".

I agree with Schaller, though. As I posted yesterday, the Republicans are lost. They really did think Obama's popularity was based in the cult of personality and they were oh so very, very wrong.

Let them wander and wonder. It isn't my job to help them figure it out. My job is to keep them from getting elected while the country recovers under responsible leadership.

Sarah Palin speaks with the verbosity frequently employed by those trying to sound more intelligent.

Be-bop? Sweetie, you've mixed up your Charlie Parker with Kenny G.

@ Tommy C: I hope Dean does decide to run for Senate in 2010. I'll be happy to donate.

Wow. Some of these right wing people sound unhinged. It's hard to tell if Barone was trying to make a joke, because, as a general rule, the right sucks at being funny. If taken at his word, one would have to wonder why he thought calling his colleagues out as craven was funny in his own mind. No one in the media deserved that remark. No one.

Warren Buffet has said for years that it isn't, and I agree with him.

The Republican party has turned into the biggest bunch of candy ass whiners anyone could ever imagine. I can't see anyone in their right mind taking a look at that group and saying to themselves, hey, I want to be a part of that.

Paul Broun is a coward and he's doing what cowards do. It's ugly, pathetic and low class.

Thanks, Sarah.