LANDSLIDE?!?

C. It's in the wind. Landslide.

1. Check out all the polling data, the Electoral College map ain't pretty for McCranky and the Avon Lady from Mooseville. http://www.pollster.com/ or 538.com or MSNBC.

2. McCain isn't bothering to campaign on the weekend, puttering around the golf course while his party regulars smell an embarrassment? Publicly bailing on Michigan. Woops.

3. Governor Palin practically hanging (in a smug yet folksy way of course) Obama in effigy as a terrorist sympathizer this weekend at a Colorado event. Desperate and ugly snottiness that McCain supposedly swore off.

4. Massive new voter registration that skew Democrat demographic.

5. The Bailout fallout and Wall Street implosion are making 401K's into 201K's, voters are going to punish the GOP with extreme prejudice.

Enjoy the Saturday Night Live sketches America, the Landslide is brewing up a vicious beating.

J: Dammit, C, you always yell at me for breaking out the early predictions... and now I'm going to turn the tables. The election is still a long way off. A month is a hell of a long time in politics, and... hell, my heart's not in it. I agree with you.

But, for the sake of accuracy, I will say that it's fivethirtyeight.com, and they do a really good job of breaking down the numbers.

I also really don't see McCain's campaign managers getting much work after this race, at least not on a National level. David Plouffe will be the "must-have" Democratic strategist for the next decade. He was smart enough to steal the grass-roots internet organization of Dean in 2004, and the "Speed Kills" approach of Carville in '92. He has had the message out quickly, and his ability to keep everything running through the campaign has kept the Obama message on-topic.

Still, it is a month, and it should get more entertaining from here. Our next stop- tomorrow's drinking game... err... debate.

C. Now that I've opened my big, fat trap, expect Johnny Mac to stroll on stage with Bin Laden's head under his arm with a butter knife in his hand.

Ae We There Yet?

C: Drunken Politics North has experienced technical difficulties. Pouring an entire glass of wine over a laptop is bad for web access. Thanks to a charming and very attractive neighbor and the loan of her laptop, this post is possible. On with the show.

The Keystone State is Ground Zero for Hilary. The horrifying debacle that was the debate, (which J. warned me not to watch), tested the metal of any politics geek. Sheesh, what a fiasco. Let's see, York Peppermint Patties is closing up shop and moving its facility from PA to Mexico, and ABC News asks about flag pins and Rev. Wright. And while Obama and Clinton spar over Drivel and Nonsense, McConfused is shoring up national credibility despite the facts. A Bush economy in the crapper, a sub-prime mortgage meltdown, war on two fronts, international disrespect, the death of the US dollar and oil prices through the roof, yet McCain has parlayed the Democrat's sniping and his veteran status into the realm of Presidential possibility. Shi'a, Shiite, who cares, eh? Economy-shomony.

With a bit of luck, Pennsylvania will stick a fork in Clinton and say she's done. Will mathematics ever kick in? This is No Child Left Behind gone mad.