Random Pre-Voting Thoughts

I checked the online database that is supposed to tell me the location of my polling place. It said I wasn't listed; that's encouraging. I'll sort it out tomorrow but one way or the other, I'm voting.

Here's what could happen Tuesday:

• McCain pulls out a narrow victory. The Bradley effect, where nobody wanted to admit they're not voting for the black guy, has been skewing the polls the whole time. We have riots for a week and Jesse Jackson brands the whole country as racist.
• Same as above but, like Gore, Obama actually wins the popular vote while coming up short in the electoral college. Riots, branding, and serious attempts to re-write the Constitution.
• Obama wins, but just barely. The Democrats gloat for a day and then reality sets in. Obamessiah cannot deliver everything he's promised. The markets collapse, small businesses are devastated, the military is cut by 25%, and the global community delights in our weakness.
  
• Right-wingers debate fruitlessly what effect the Obama-smitten news anchors had by calling the race for Obama hours before polls close in the Western parts of the country.
• Obama wins in a landslide, i.e. better than 60% of the popular vote, 75% of the electoral votes. We become Europe: a mere shadow of its former self, identity lost to foreign invasion, economic vitality lost, an ultimately unsustainable nanny-state that's lost its way spiritually.
• Nobody likes to say it, but I'll bet someone sets some cars on fire no matter who wins.