5:20 p.m. MSNBC, and wine versus beer again, the same thin stereotype reduced to its absurd on Matthews' show, w/ Obama supporters linked with Chablis and Clinton supporters linked with Schlitz. Meanwhile, CNN briefly showed the Clintons voting at their 'home' in NY. A local poll worker--and believe me, that is hard work--showed Mrs. Clinton into the voting booth (those gizmos shd be more widely used) and jokingly asked her, "Are you a Democrat?" She gamely said yes, true blue. The man then asked Bill Clinton the same thing, mild election-day humor you know, and Bill Clinton rudely snubbed him by ignoring it.

Why do they let Bill Clinton outside? He is lucky to be fed indoors.

Back to Matthews, who tosses out a question for thought, to the assembled pundits incl the generally very good Eugene Robinson: what is each candidate's "worst fear"? Realistically the worst fear for either McCain or Romney is, or should be, that some of those Christians who vote Right will realize that the Iraq war is not Christian.

That is, unless your idea of Christianity is the Spanish Inquisition, or the Holy Roman Empire.

Back to CNN, and Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs actually bring up the vote technology problems. Dobbs points out that we still have 13 states (at least) without a verifiable paper trail.

Given the problems with op-scan vote counting technology, as well as the much better publicized problems with voting machines, that's still not the whole picture.

btw, Grover Norquist earlier, like most hardened rightwing interviewees, talked as though "Hillary" is the inevitable Dem nominee.