Some spot evidence

... that W. is likely to win re-election. A friend of mine who is officially independent and probably more often than not votes Demo, yesterday told me that he voted for W., even though he somewhat objected to the war (not logically, in my opinion). But he said he voted for W. because he thought W. should be given time to finish the job. Even more amazingly, his wife, who usually votes straight Demo, also voted for W. I guess Kerry is just not very appealing to “swing voters.”

This really made my day. I paid for the lunch, but it was after-the-fact that he told me, so I don’t think this counts as vote-buying.