On the one hand, to be fair, as someone who tends to cheer for the Democrats, the party is exceptional at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. I can’t help but feel like Charlie Brown waiting for Lucy to pull the football away again. You never know how many percentage points to subtract for incompetent and/or fraudulent election administration. You never know when a candidate’s gonna die in a plane crash. I’ve been doing a lot of knocking on wood.

On the other hand, the small dose of CNN I have seen recently makes me want to set the exercise room television on fire. With C4. And plutonium. For mostly the same reasons as this comic.

Is Obama a noncitizen Muslim terrorist who never graduated from Columbia? No! Is he the anti-Christ? No! Does McCain have a chance of winning Pennsylvania? No, unless Obama devours a live puppy on live TV today–and even then, like a third of voters have already voted! Yet the mere utterance of these things is apparently enough to obligate the media to dignify and amplify them with coverage…