My personal emotions towards the contest so far swing between satisfied and annoyed.  It's going roughly as I expected it to go.  I keep hoping we're arriving at the breaking point -- that it will "pop" permanently and be easy-ish from that point on.  But we haven't hit it, at least not yet.

That annoys me, because at some point I'm left to think, "Wow, maybe the country really is too stupid to get its shit together."

And, of course, the press annoys me, which is why I don't bother watching the news (but have learned to gauge press behavior pretty accurately based on what's being discussed on the blogs).

But, then again, McCain has only led in, I think, about six of the last one hundred and twenty polls.  Another ten or so have been tied, and the rest have gone for Obama.  So I know the votes are there to win it, and my gut feeling is that it's simply a matter of giving undecided voters time (obviously barring some kind of epic scandal).

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin