…someone talk me off of the ledge.

Obama will be the Democratic candidate. He will be our 44th President. (Of the first statement, I'm certain. Of the second, I'm about 80% sure.)

Two ways to resist.

First, find or remember people you know personally. For me, it's knowing that all sorts of people I know casually now turn the conversation to the campaign. Standing in line to order coffee, it comes up. In fellowship hour at church, it comes up. In the conversation, people have details about what's happening. A friend called me from three hours away for a morale boost the other day, and I realized half way through the conversation that, in addition to numbers, I could tell her issue details and state-by-state developments. I've never been like that before. Other folks haven't either. The change is really out there.

Second, start thinking about how we can change or supplant the MSM. YouTube and FaceBook and on-line fundraising have transformed campaigning this year. The talking-head noise-machine looks to me like the next target. I think it's got to be a pincer movement from two sides. Partly, we just replace them with online sources. Partly, we make the online sources so big that the broadcast and cable folks have to change their game. A starting idea: a version of "Rate My Professor" for daily editions of the news shows.

Finally, hold on to this: "You know, Dr. King once said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. It bends toward justice. But here’s the thing: it doesn't bend on its own. It bends because each of us puts our hands on that arc and bends it in the direction of justice. Because we organize and we mobilize, we march, we vote, we parent, we’re active in our community, we’re active in our schools." --Barack Obama, April 4, 2008 (The last sentence is on the video but not in the prepared remarks).

Even with the worst outcomes in the next few months, we have seen a bigger, better America that is coming into being. Put your hand on that arc,and keep pulling it toward justice.

Probably will be the nominee. Don't see how he gets elected while losing FL, PA, and OH to McCain though. I've read that FL voters/Dems are really pissed about being disenfranchised. Obama blundered by not supporting--at the very least--a revote. Esp since, unlike Hillary, he violated the spirit of the agreement and campaigned there by airing ads on the national networks over the weekend just prior to the election. Maybe he has the time to convince them that his campaign tactics were an aberration and he really is the "new kind of politicean" he purports to be. Best of luck.