My friend Lydia Wilkins is 104 years old. The picture below shows her voting on November 4 in Pasadena, California. I could write more, but I think the picture says it all, especially since we know how the election turned out. Photo by Margaret Sedenquist (more...)

“All your base are belong to us.” The old dawn-of-the Web refrain has been echoing in my head ever since I first heard John McCain talking about how Sarah Palin had excited “the base.” If John McCain had a base and Sarah Palin had excited it, could Democrats hope to claim it on election day? As recently as a month ago, I seriously wondered if it could really happen. Back then, it seemed inconceivable that Nevada—much less any of the other “tossup” states—could turn blue. I read a newspaper editorial that floated the notion. Impossible, I thought at the time. ... (more...)