NP: Peter Gabriel, OVO (CD)

I'm seeing a lot of this sort of thinking lately. As a strong advocate of unaffiliated, independent voters, it's at least somewhat encouraging that this election may not depend as heavily on whose base is stronger. Although the key piece of data I'd love to see in one of these polls is how it breaks out by voters who were eligible to vote in 2000, but didn't.

Why? Because if you want to throw the conventional wisdom out the window, the easiest rationalization is that the universe has changed significantly, and if, as I suspect, there's perhaps more incentive for past non-voters to get involved, then everything gets notoriously hard to predict. You just can't assume that people who normally don't vote behave at all like those who do.

Anyway, food for thought.

I'm encouraged that the office is coming around on the notion of "full pot of coffee goes on the burner that's turned on," as it was sorta touch and go there for a while.