PA delivers! I LOVE my blue state right now!

As a life-long resident of Pennsylvania, I've done my fair share of bitching, whining and complaining about many things about my state. Our roads suck. Our Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has got to be the dumbest government idea since anti-sodomy laws.

But, you know what? Pennsylvania has gone for every Democratic Nominee since 1988, when George H.W. Bush carried the Keystone State.

Of course, we're being subjected to lots of babbling, talking and analysis by the talking heads, but I agree with them on their point (on MSNBC) that Sarah Palin did not sell well in the Philadelphia suburbs. I know many, many people in the 'burbs who were appalled at McCain's choice of Sarah Stupid. Just wondering how Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider is feeling after pulling the asinine move of having her drop the puck on opening night. Nice try.

I also wish I could get into the head of failed GOP hack Brian Tierney, who heads the corporation that owns and operates the Philadelphia Inquirer, who reportedly had a heated battle with editors over who the paper would endorse. The result? A dual endorsement. Yes, you read that right. So much for Tierney's pledge to "not interfere with the editorial content" of the paper.

One other quick note about the preliminary poll results: in Pennsylvania, Hillary supporters are going for Obama in overwhelming numbers in the state, 81%-19%. That has to exceed even the most optimistic expectations of the Obama camp.

Just wondering - Hillary Supporters for McCain - where are you now?

Olbermann's final campaign Special Comment

Geeze, I'm going to miss Keith Olbermann's Special Comments on the election - above is video of his last one. Of course, not to worry, though, because there's plenty of other things to get his dander up, including 77 more days of Bush rule before he rides off into the sunset and back to Texas to his faux ranch.

Anyway, earlier today, Olbermann pondered an interesting question - if Obama had made the same gaffes that McCain has made during the last three months, what would have happened?

Take it away, Keith:

We all know exactly what would be happening tonight if Senator Obama had made all those mistakes, contradictions, gaffes, Freudian slips, and hypocritical pronouncements. He would have long since ceased to be taken seriously by any measurable part of the voting public, as a viable, responsible, self-aware, mentally vigorous, non-dangerous, non-risk. We'd all be going home to our beds well before midnight tomorrow night.

But while all that is hypothetical, this is not: This cascade of incompetence and irresponsibility I have enumerated tonight -- all the sound bites, all the foot-in-mouth moments, all the no-brainers-gone-wrong - all these, John McCain has said. No hyperbole and no hypotheses are required.

This is who John McCain has showed us he is.

I can't say it much better than that. Obama would have been toast had he even come close to McCain's ineptness on the campaign trail, which illustrates the white privilege that's been so evident in this election.

How so?

Just imagine if Barack Obama (or even Joe Biden) had a family in the same situation as Sarah Palin - an unwed teenaged, pregnant daughter? If you're really being honest with yourself, it's not hard to envision that the media would have roasted the Obamas and raked them over the coals.

Tonight, pay particular attention to the exit polls

I have to confess, I'm already more nervous watching the returns, even at this early hour, than I ever have been while watching any returns in my lifetime, and I've watched them all since 1980. Of course, since '80, there haven't been too many for Democrats to get too excited about.

Anyway, it just kills me that this point gets so little play in the media: why the exit polling sometimes varies widely from the actual results. Actually, there are many reasons for this - principally because the data isn't always interpreted correctly, but how about this one - votes not being counted correctly, and in some cases, the vote being hacked. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but there is plenty, and I do mean plenty of evidence that this will happen again tonight, much like it did in '00 and '04. Think about it - it's not complicated:

If 550 people out of 1000 vote for Obama, and answer that way in exit polls, one would suggest (with a margin of error for a variety of reasons, of course) that Obama would win, 55% - 45%, or something close to that. And exit polling is primarily how the networks project the winners of states. But, in '00, and to a lesser extent, '04, the exit polling proved to be inaccurate, and in some cases very inaccurate.

Here's hoping that this trend doesn't continue tonight.