V minus .25

Saw Kerry in Cleveland on C-Span. Introduced by the Boss: "My fellow guitar player and the next President of the United States." Kerry's stump speech honed to perfection. Great crowd in the rain.

A word about blogging. I'm going to blog on election day because you never know who is out there. Even though I doubt more than a handful of people read this blog, there are one or two of you who are depending on it for some of the news on election day. But it's the big blogs that are already making a difference. Monday a lot of primarily elderly voters in Florida were getting phone calls telling them their polling places had changed, when of course they hadn't. One 70 year old woman happened to be a Kerry activist and blew the whistle. Soon Kerry hqs and other outfits knew about it, an appeal was put on the kos site to contact news media with the story, and by the 11 oclock news, TV stations in the affected cities were leading with it. A tried and true voter suppression tactic had run smack up against smart voters and the Internet. Specifically the blogger network.

So there's likely to be a lot of info of local interest on the blogs, lots of information will be perishable but important. The blogosphere has an entirely different take on the election than the networks and cable media. It's going to be fascinating to see who is closer to reality. For the record, kos is predicting a bigger Kerry victory than we are, and MyDD (one of the first and still most respected) is predicting a tighter Kerry victory. In his last appearances, Kerry got almost mystical. He sees a very big moment coming, as do these bloggers. The Get Out the Vote efforts are going to be crucial, and there's a lot of happy warriors out there. Nervous, but happy. And warriors.