It is Monday and I feel like I am almost home, don’t you? It has been a very long bus ride with people who really need a shower. What a long, strange trip this has been to arrive right back in the middle of the road, the signposts ahead pointing boldly to the Right and to the Left.

The polls are calling everything a dead heat, tied 49-49 percent.

I puzzled about that particular news this morning. Do you think it will be like that when the ballots are counted? I don’t know. I just hope that whatever happens is a clean kill for the victor- a measurable majority of both the popular vote and the Electoral College.

I do know that the legal teams are already filing briefs to carry the fight beyond Election Day, so I have a certain gloomy expectation that it won’t be over tomorrow, and it will be a reprise of that awful Gore-Bush thing down in Miami and the media circus about hanging chads.

Seems sort of quaint these days.

I would feel better if someone had opened up a lead, but at this point I don’t really care. We have got a lot of stuff that needs to happen by January- Sequestration, Tax hikes, all that stuff. We require a functioning government or we are going to have even more trouble.

I hope we know what we have to deal with when tomorrow is over. With luck, we will be able to fix some problems and move on. Or at least know that this mess will continue, badly divided.

Only tomorrow will tell. So, in the words of  American Hero Todd Beamer, “You guys ready? Let’s roll.”

Copyright 2012 Vic Socotra
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