US political blogger Glenn Reynolds, who runs Instapundit.com, has written his sixth column for Guardian Unlimited. He writes:
As the blogger Steven Den Beste wrote: "I was tired of the November 2004 election in November 2003." Me, too. By this time tomorrow, God willing and the creeks don't rise (as we say in these parts), we'll know who won.
I hope it is Bush, of course, and the final round of polling makes that look likely. But polls are always doubtful, and I have trusted them even less than usual this cycle. But more, even, than I hope for a Bush win, I hope that whoever wins gets a clear victory. Otherwise - especially as no one has chosen to take my advice on dealing with voter fraud - we may be in for a rerun of the 2000 election, with all the partisanship and rancour that it involved.
That was bad back then, when we were all still drowsing in the afterglow as the dot-com bubble deflated, and when the only people who realised we were at war with terrorists who wanted to bring down the west were the terrorists themselves. It would be worse now, when - after elections in Afghanistan and a notable lack of success by the terrorists in Iraq - the war is going well enough that even Osama bin Laden is trying to sound reasonable.
Read on here and catch up with Guardian Unlimited's special report on the US election here.
