I remember in the past when it seemed rare to spot a truly blue sky above Manhattan but that's changed, along with a lot of other things about this city. As I said to someone it's a lot more like San Francisco here now than it used to be.
Today the weather is lovely and the city is beautiful.
My son appears to be fine after the soccer injury; we spoke briefly this morning. That's a relief.
My colleagues on the editorial board of The Nation led a spirited discussion of the coming election and other matters this afternoon. There is a consensus that what I reported some time back is likely -- Obama, the Democrats keep the Senate, the Republicans keep the House.
But the nation's oldest continuously publishing weekly magazine has a long collective memory -- back to 1865 -- and our predecessors made many endorsements over the past century and a half.
Progressives are very disappointed with Obama's first term, as he has been tepid on many key issues that matter a lot to any progressive agenda. On the other hand, with the GOP in the control of a extremist element that mistakes the public sector (government) for an ideology (i.e., socialism), there's no sympathy toward Romney's dilemma.
Electoral maps are collections of numbers and the numbers are all trending for Obama, most importantly in the relatively few swing states, like Florida, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Romney appears to be failing in all of them, which if it holds, suggests a runaway victory for the President.
Things can change; there's time, but little seems really at play any longer on the Presidential election level.
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