Election Day 2008's news delivered to you hours before the polls close, only from the crystal ball of The Swami:
Barack Obama, taking the stage around 10 p.m. Central Standard Time before a roaring crowd of untold thousands on an unseasonably warm night in Chicago, will declare victory in the 2008 presidential campaign ...
... Obama's announcement will come whether or not he actually has won the popular vote in enough states to secure 270 electoral votes, but television schedules come before technicalities ...
... not to be outdone, John McCain will step outside Phoenix's Biltmore Hotel around 10:01 p.m. Central Standard Time before a roaring crowd of his own on a seasonably warm Arizona night and re-declare that he is "The Comeback Kid" ...
... McCain's announcement will also come whether or not he has defied every statistical measurement and actually won the presidency, but supporters will be able to point out that the votes at that point will not have come in from the West Coast, Hawaii or, critically, Alaska ...
... speaking of Alaska, regardless of Tuesday's outcome, Sarah Palin will start moving her belongings into Number One Observatory Circle, the official residence of the vice-president at the U.S. Naval Observatory, saying that she is "very, very pleased to be cleared of any electoral defeat, any hint of any kind of rejection by the mass electorate there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that" ...
... closer to home, Dan Seals will go to bed late Tuesday (or early Wednesday) wondering why, at least for him, Barack Obama's coat has no tails ...
... supporters of Steve Greenberg will head for home rather early Tuesday night, wondering whatever happened to the safe, cozy Republican armchair occupied by Phil Crane all those years ...
... and Lake County residents will wake up Wednesday morning, look out their bedroom window and notice that the landscape has a new and once-unheard of shade of blue.
--and join News-Swami at 7pm tonight to chat LIVE about the presidential election. Also follow me on Twitter where I will be posting updates from all over the county.
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