Why we will win...

...and how.

Overexposure to the mainstream media's obsession with the polls and their insistence that the Presidential race is too close to call is apt to inspire varying degrees of apathy or despair, but it ignores both historical and contemporary reality. As usual, Ruy Teixeira is on hand to set the record straight...

...this year, Kerry is doing better in the polls than Gore did at the equivalent point in the 2000 race. Therefore, if current polls are overestimating Bush's strength by the same amount as in 2000, Kerry should wind up doing better than Gore on election day--and Gore won the popular vote by half a point. And that's not even factoring in the likelihood that, with Bush as the incumbent, Kerry will receive the bulk of undecided voters' support on election day.

The election is there for the taking, but it has to be taken. USA Today is almost right...

After all the speeches are given, all the commercials are aired and all the cheering has stopped, the outcome of this year's presidential election could come down to which candidate is better able to physically get his vote to the polls.

Replace "could" with "will" and there it is in a nutshell.

It's no longer a matter of where Kerry should go, or what Kerry should say, or how it will be reported. It's really up to us now. What will you do to get out one more Kerry vote on your block? Ten more in your precinct? They're out there. You know it. People who want to do the right thing, and will do it if someone just pushes them a little past the apathy or despair that might keep them away from the polls.

Make some calls. Knock on some doors. Offer a ride. Do a little or do a lot, but do something. And while you're at it, sell them the whole ticket and give President Kerry the Congress he deserves.

We can win it all, but we can't win at all if we don't play.

Get in the game.