This discussion is making me very nervous.  I am like Rachel Q above . . . I was hoping for a blowout.  OK, so I'm back to reality.  I will see about going to either Florida or Michigan since Texas will probably stay red (darnit!!).  I was hoping that we could push the Latino population since they comprise 37.4 percent of the voting population, but looking at Rick Noriega's money v. John Cornyn's (he's outmatched 10-1), looks like we are not rallying that group.  So I'll vote early and pack up to work in a state where I'm really needed.

This all so frustrating for me.  While I'm not as knowledgeable in these matters as most of you guys, it still boggles my mind that people would vote for the SAME PARTY that got us into this mess in the first place.  It should be a clear choice for people--get rid of the culprits that stole our constitutional rights, destroyed the economy, got us in an unnecessary war that saw many of our young people killed or maimed, destroyed our standing in the world, etc., etc.  That should be the overriding argument against ever putting these people back in office again.  We argue about the Palins and the other "symptoms" rather than  what I believe is the true issue--the Republican Party as it is today.  It need to go.  Period.