I live in Indiana, and I'm cautiously optimistic about the chance of the state going blue this election.  I have some concerns, however, regarding an early resounding victory for Obama.  My worry is that down ticket items like Prop 8 in California the congressional races will not receive the vote that they might have in the West because people won't bother to vote once Obama wins. 

If you knew that your candidate had already won (barring some massively unlikely turn of events where California goes red or something similar), would you wait in a three or four hour line?  Perhaps, but you are also reading political blogs.  Would your neighbor?  Would the mom with two little kids to take care of?  I know that Republicans are pushing people to vote in spite of their almost sure defeat in the presidential election, and that they would know that their fight was lost just as early as we'd know ours was won, but those long lines somehow seem to happen in the liberal areas more often than the conservative.

I want Obama to win convincingly, by a large margin both in the popular vote and the electoral, and again, I'd love to see Indiana go blue, but I also want both houses of Congress to go strongly for the Dems, and Prop 8 makes me sick to my stomach.  I guess I'm left with hoping that the enthusiasm I have seen here sustains itself across the country and that Obama's supporters feel a need to help him win resoundingly across the country.