A Brewing Landslide

We've been fairly quiet on the political front here- sort of a combination of over-saturation, FISA irritation and holding of breath (like the moment for significant pause last week when Obama's plane conked out,) but I'm still seeing the kind of year for the Old Goiter Party where I'm afraid that come November, I'm going to wear out the barrel on the Schaudenfredenator...

(where did I leave that btw, I can't find it!)

The combination of the small but very consistent Obama lead in the last two months, and interesting stirrings on the sidelines, like this massive new voter registration imbalance in Florida, are seismic movements that to me suggest the possibility - the possibility- of a landslide.

And here's my thing with this, though...if victory is in reach, no holding back: take out all the stops. Phil Graham has been wrong about everything economic in the way Cheney is wrong about everything else. These are just two of the worst, most destructive people in America, a group otherwise known as the GOP, and McCain would have about as much influence over them as a 7th-day Adventist would at a wet-t-shirt contest.

I've been an Obama supporter primarily because I believed that his ability to create mass-movements as a basis for political action is the KEY to getting the country to move ahead. The bigger the victory, the greater the base political power there will be, and the more good that can happen.