moment Obama won."  Michelle won it for him last night and so did Patrick and so did Castro depending on who you listen to.  Tonight he won again thanks to Bill Clinton. If only Barack Obama was a good speaker, then he could win again.  ;-) When the truth is only a matter of opinion, advantage goes to the liars. ...it's the debates that are going to be the killer punch (in my opinion). I don't want to sound complacent (and in fact, I urge people to re-double their efforts: take nothing for granted) but I have this warm, glowing little voice inside me that keeps saying ' landslide '. I know, I know...I don't have any 'evidence' to back it up...but I travel a lot and I'm a hard-core eavesdropper: I spend a lot of time listening to what complete strangers are saying. And what I'm hearing, in up-market hotel lobbies and down-at-heel bars, in business-class on planes and on classless park benches, is a lot of people who are sick-to-death of the lies, the mindless hatred and bigotry and the sheer malicious spite of the Republican Party as a whole. I've listened to scores of people saying that they've always voted Republican but that they're so disgusted by the hatefulness and the neanderthal positions of the American Taliban (which is what the Republican Party has become) that they're either staying home or voting Democrat. I'm hearing a tsunami of contempt for the Republicans building amongst people whom I