ELECTION DAY!!

Election day and the big question is not who are we voting for but what are we voting and how can we possibly know???-- One party running from its record and the other running from having to offer an agenda--Most Americans seem to know the litany of major problems facing our country and many despair that their choices will not effectively offer real solutions to those problems-- Despair downwardly spirals into resignation and soon there follows the annilhation of truly significant morale-- This election has not and will not deliver an agenda of real hope-- Real hope does not find its origins in the mudslinging and venally petty verbal assaults our unctiously moneyed politicians volley across the blathersphere and through the microphones of the devolved hacks fronting a media devoid of integrity-- This is an election incapable of settling debateable issues-- No issues were even debated when slickly positioned candidates managed to agree to debate, (the new meaning of the word entails standing on stage with your opponent mouthing vague platitudes and looking photogenic)-- Turnout by my guess will be low but the number of voters casting ballots in anger will no doubt rise precipitously-- Though most pundit analysts will not seriously broach this topic with any but slack-jawed seriousness-- The political undercurrent running through the America that doesn't vote is also one surviving candidates had best not lose heed of--No one can win this election--

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  These are this mornings headlines from across the internet-- Read them and weep
  Gold Rises on Speculation Dollar Will Weaken Against Euro, Yen - Bloomberg (11/7/2006 10:45 AM)
  Dollar drops to 6-week lows against euro on jitters over US elections - AFX (11/7/2006 12:39 PM)
  U.S. consumer credit down by most since April 1992 - CBS Marketwatch (11/7/2006 2:43 PM)
  
  
  Toll Brothers Revenue Declines After Cancellations - Bloomberg (11/7/2006 5:58 AM)
  Toll Brothers sees no end to home slump - CNN/Money (11/7/2006 8:52 AM)
  
  Fed To Banks: Halt Bond Fraud - Forbes (11/7/2006 5:32 AM)
  Wall St warned over price manipulation - FT (11/6/2006 8:34 PM)
  
  Voting machine problems bedevil multiple states at USATODAY.com - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
  Even politicians must show ID to vote at USATODAY.com
  
  
  AP
  Voters weigh Iraq as they pick Congress AP - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
  Voter results will decide Bush's potency AP - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago
  Poll workers struggle with e-ballots AP - 22 minutes ago
  FBI investigating Va. voter calls AP - 21 minutes ago
  Around the U.S., a lot of talk of change AP