Everyone has done a pretty good job picking this piece apart.

How many of these so-called "undecided" voters will even vote at all? I have a hard time believing that anyone who is truly undecided will actually be voting. How could anyone be undecided?

Also, remember that these polls only ask Obama v McCain. They completely ignore all of the independent candidates. Now, they aren't going to get much support, but probably they will get a couple of percentage points in aggregate. Perhaps those undecideds just don't like either major candidate and will vote for a 3rd party. How many of the races cited in this article had more than two candidates?

I am sure I have been called by pollsters. And I don't answer their calls. With so many polls going on I wonder how big of a cross-section is really being called. And how are these so-called likely voters being determined? I am always skeptical of polls. Especially when they are probably not reaching anyone under 30.

I'm sure no one ever heard about this controversy before! The desperation is just so palpable.

I have been saying for a while now that she is the female version of George Bush. She has the exact same personality traits. And she would be a disaster for the exact same reasons. I think enough of the middle ground voters saw just that when they dug a little bit beyond her roll out at the convention.

Is this Crist getting back at McCain for picking Palin instead of him?

I think what would be better for Obama to do would be a lecture for McCain on the US tax system and how it has always worked. The progressive tax code means that rich people pay a higher rate. That's the way it has always worked. Was Reagan a socialist? Was Bush?

This "redistributionist" argument is assanine. But it strikes a chord with the morons in this country who want no taxes and lots of services.

I hope McCain is going to get an agent's cut of however much "Joe" makes from this. He owes it all to John McCain. Talk about parlaying your idiocy. It's the American Dream!

the Obama commercial was well done. But maybe almost too well-produced, with the Obama graphics animation flashing up at the end. It almost felt like the whole campaign has been a movie or something.

The ultimate question will be, who watched it? Were there any "undecideds" out there or just his supporters?

But he won a Pulitzer Prize! Therefore he must always be right about everything!

I wouldn't want to be president now either. But I think Obama has enough intelligence and is smart enough to surround himself with the right people to steer through this thing as well as anyone could.

But I keep wavering between the "end is near" and thinking that maybe things will work out ok after all. But I have to admit that once you start really thinking logically about the world economy there isn't much room for optimism. So it only makes sense that people are finally going to start tightening their belts and saving. And while that will sink large parts of the consumer-driven economy in a feedback spiral downwards, I think it's really the only reaction that makes any sort of sense. The chickens are just coming home to roost now after all the living it up we've all been doing for so long.

Actually the Washington NFL thing is that if they win the incumbent party wins, if they lose the non-incumbent wins.

well, if anyone knows about stealing elections surely it is Karl Rove.

The right is totally unhinged. These people are INSANE!

I think the deal with the state dinners is that there have been so few of them. People around town really get off on seeing the guest lists to those things. The WP devotes lots of coverage.

I have been in DC since 1990. I can't remember people ever flocking to the White House on election night to celebrate the way they did this year. Strangers were literally hugging in the streets all over town. DC is a very Democratic town so I suppose that has a little something to do with it. But when Clinton won I don't recall the same sorts of excitement or celebration.

if people can't even properly fill in the bubbles on an optical scan card they probably have no business voting in the first place.

Some of those example are just pitiful, but the ones that have a bubble marked but a write in name entered without the bubble next to it marked ought to be pretty easy to count for the person whose bubble was actually filled in.

The Thais absolutely LOVE slapstick comedy. There are basically two genres of Thai films that make money. One is slapstick comedy (especially if it includes a couple of katoey (Thai lady-boys)). The other is ghost stories/horror films. Want to make a thoughtful drama? Prepare to make no money at the box office. Of course the same could be said of the movie business in a lot of other places as well.

What's the deal with Illinois? They can't seem to elect a governor who can stay out of jail.

what a couple of potty-mouths Gov. Rod and his wife are.

If anywhere close to that many people show up it will be total gridlock. I myself am going in the opposite direction and getting out of town. I would just be watching it all on TV anyway, so I can do that as easily visiting my family in Florida as I could in Arlington. Everyone I know keeps asking me if I am going to rent my place out. But frankly the idea of total strangers living in my home really bothers me. Anyone who is charging thousands of dollars to rent their home better expect a few things to be missing when they get back.