A couple more thoughts....

Not that there has been any drastic change over the last 24 hours, but I just wanted to share.

1) We've already had our visa applications approved and visas issued. We should have our passports back from the British Consulate in NYC tomorrow afternoon. That was fast.

2) If you haven't yet, you must read this article in the Washington Post about the racism - latent and blatant - that Obama campaign volunteers have faced canvassing for him. It's shocking that in this day and age there are still those folks out there, that with all the information readily available via the internet and other sources that easily disputable misinformation and lies still pervade. But then again, maybe it isn't that shocking after all.

I disagree with just about every Obama position he holds. But at the same time, I still want to see him win. If he wins, I believe he could be another Kennedy. Now, if you really look at what Kennedy's presidency was actually like, it was a near disaster - Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis - the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war, etc. The era that followed - the Civil Rights and Student Movements of the late 60s, the feminist revolution, the change in culture that happened after his presidency... that's what I hope for. When Kennedy was elected it marked the first time a Catholic was President, and that was considered a major thing. Breaking barriers as a society - through electing Presidents - sends the message to those holding social progress back - those outright racists described in the article - that they are not part of the solution, they are part of the problem, and their anachronistic views and values have been overcome. I think that this country took some steps backwards when it re-elected W - sending the message that the hard-core conservative Christian right, more concerned with keeping gays from marrying and teens from having sex than solving the very real social problems of pollution and poverty, and promoting government policies that rejected science in favor of religion in a country established on the principle of keeping religion out of government. Electing Obama I think would be a drastic swing of the pendulum in the opposite direction.

It's not the first guy on the beach who wins the war - it's the wave behind him.