For me, this elec­tion is essen­tially over. I dropped by one the early polling places (two, actu­ally) yes­ter­day and cast my vote for Barack Hus­sein Obama (and Joe Biden, Mark Udall for Colorado’s sen­ate seat and Ed Perl­mut­ter for my con­gres­sional dis­trict). I voted at the sec­ond polling sta­tion because the line at the first one was a good fifty meters long at least, most of that peo­ple two or three abreast. And this is early vot­ing, a full week before elec­tion day.

Turnout is amaz­ing this year. Looks very good for democ­racy. Nor­mally I’d slide into a rant about how the Dems are all about voter turnout and the Repub­li­cans, in the last sev­eral elec­tions, have done every­thing they can to sup­press voter turnout, pre­vent the peo­ple from mak­ing their will known. But I’m in such a good mood, I’ll just give that a pass.