Some news sources are now calling North Carolina for Obama so that would put him at 364 electoral votes. Missouri's 11 are yet to be awarded but look like they're going to McCain. It's odd. Once Obama hit my prediction of 349, I found myself almost rooting for him not to get any more. It is, after all, more important that I be right, as opposed to my chosen candidate to lead the country getting a bigger mandate.
I'm not following all the G.O.P. finger-pointing a lot but as I understand it, it works like this: We have a second or third hand report of some unidentified person claiming that Sarah Palin said a lot of silly things in strategy meetings and prep sessions…like this would be a shocking revelation, given what she said in public. From this new gossip, we're apparently supposed to conclude that she's more responsible for the loss than the guy who thought she'd be the best possible vice-president. I don't have a very high opinion of Governor Palin but at least she wasn't dumb enough to do this…
