Twenty-four hours to go...

I wanna be sedated.

• TheHill says that the House GOP is pinning their hopes on McCain showing well in the general. WTF? To me, this sounds like an extreme-righty (Cole) preemptively blaming a more moderate righty (McCain) for a poor showing overall. In other words, the first shots of the great Reep Civil War have been fired, and battle lines are being drawn: The Palin Camp vs. The McCain Camp. This'll be one bloodbath I'm sure to enjoy.
• Gerry Seib at the WSJ points out what I've been saying for years: The fundamental way that campaigns are run has been changed. Seib, though, addresses primarily the symptoms (red states turning blue zomgz!) and not the symptom - that being, an age of easy-to-hand information and money. This is the first internet election, and Obama was the candidate who had the knowledge and foresight to take advantage of the greatest medium for communication and documentation we as a society have yet created. It is so, so much easier to donate $50 bucks from your couch than it is to mail it by hand; it is so much easier to both register to vote and help others register; it is so much easier to raise $640 million dollars. Obama's campaign saw all of that - thank you, Howard Dean! - and that's how the west is won.
• The Times has a retrospective of the last two years on the stump...
• And The Financial Times has a look at the 36 hours to come.

Enjoy the rest of the day, folks. And don't forget to VOTE!