Since I have friends who are Republicans and friends who are Democrats, I get some interesting back and forth when I post something to my Facebook profile these days. This election has been pretty divisive and I'm ready for it to be over on Tuesday. Then the other side can print up their "Don't Blame Me I Voted For (insert loser's name here)" stickers.

As to which way this thing is going to go, I was thinking for the past couple of weeks that Obama was going to win and that McCain was toast, but I get the feeling that things are tightening up. Given the uncertain economy, it's hard to get behind a candidate that wants to create new entitlements and taxes, (that statement accurately describes both candidates, despite McCain's seemingly overnight transformation into a neo-conservative) so McCain's attack on Obama as a socialist is working.

Libertarian blogged Justin Raimondo posted a great article, Making Excuses for Obama that puts into words exactly what I (and Bill Clinton) think about Obama. This whole thing is a fairly tale:

it doesn't seem to matter, much, what Obama says he's going to do, because, in any case, his fans and supporters will simply insist on projecting their own hopes, desires, and views onto him. This, by the way, is a feature of most all successful populist insurgent candidates: they are blank slates merely waiting to be written on by anxious voters, who know only that they are sick of what is, and pine for what ought to be.

This savior complex has people believing that things are going to magically get better. War will end, peace will break out, everything's going to be ok now. Obama's going to usher in a new utopian American society.

Whoever wins this thing, we're in for some tough years.