Beagles for Obama!

There is no false Virginia; there is no real Virginia.

There is ... the Commonwealth of Virginia.

No matter whom one votes for.

... except if you're a Communist, says brother Joe McCain.

McCain falls behind; no, wait, he surges to a draw.

24 hours, 2 polls, 2 diametrically opposed results.

Reuters says:

Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain has grown to 12 points in the U.S. presidential race, with crucial independent and women voters increasingly moving to his side, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.

With less than two weeks before the November 4 election, Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 points.

Obama has made steady gains over the last four days and has tripled his lead on McCain in the past week of polling.

"Obama's expansion is really across the board," pollster John Zogby said. "It seems to be among almost every demographic group."

Obama lead on McCain grows to 12 points
Reuters
Thu Oct 23, 2008

But less than 24 hours earlier, AP said:

The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord.

Three weeks ago, an AP-GfK survey found that Obama had surged to a seven-point lead over McCain, lifted by voters who thought the Democrat was better suited to lead the nation through its sudden economic crisis.

AP presidential poll: Race tightens in final weeks
Associated Press
Wed Oct 22, 2008

No poll results have been reported from the US Supreme Court.

It was a very good year

Today is my day for my year ... of the glass half-full and the glass half-empty.

To offer commentary, here's —philosopher and singer— William Shatner, from the early 1970s on the Mike Douglas Show.

... with my apologies to Frank Sinatra.



Keep passing the open windows, and stand clear of the closing doors.