Have you checked out that crazy electoral vote predictor in the right-hand column? Why would you?

NOB HILL--The polls for this election are nutz! Wacky. So variable as to be useless. Nobody has a clue as to what is going to happen on election day. The pollsters are digging in...thinking that their particular procedure has as much chance of being right as anybody elses. Likely voters...phone polls...internet polls...registered voters...weighted polls. Now Zogby has gone so far as to use two different methods. Their regular poll uses the internet, and now their tracking poll uses the phone. That way they figure (I guess) that if one is way off they can say they had it right on the other one.

Tucker Carlson, this weekend on PBS's "Tucker Carlson Unfiltered," said that if neither of the two candidates are really saying what you believe, don't vote. Don't Vote? Obviously aimed at people who won't vote for Bush but don't like Kerry either, this statement hopes to siphon off more K votes than B votes. Instead of helping undecideds sort things out and think things through in any number of ways, Carlson (who was so recently skewered on his own show by Jon Stewart) chooses to say, "Don't think...don't vote." That borders on evil. And it never would be said by anyone who in his heart loves this country and democracy. Politics has been called the art of compromise, the art of the possible. The opposite of that is the world of the zealot, and what de Toqueville called "The Tyranny of the Majority."