.| UrbanNerd |.

If I have not said it before, I strongly advise anyone who has an interest in following elections results to watch MSNBC. They have the best most evenly balanced coverage of the 3 cable news networks. MSNBC comes alive at election time. My personal favorite is Chris Matthews & Hardball. Here is what ABC’s the Note is saying about election eve today:

All politics is local, except when it is national, and elections are always about the future, except when they are about the past.

With those two matters cleared up . . . .

What Republicans have:
The ground game (read this super-mega-must-read Los Angeles Times story now LINK, and then come back to The Note); Gallup; Ken Mehlman; the practical and psychological power of the Bush-Rove five-election winning streak; Vice President Cheney off the trail for the last 48 hours; FLOTUS; “we might not be perfect, but have you gotten a load of them!?”; Dr. Dobson.

What Democrats have:
Iraq; change versus more of the same; anti-Bush feeling; the everything’s-relative steely discipline of Dean/Pelosi/Reid; the sixth-year itch; well-recruited candidates who have followed Rahm’s and Chuck’s First Rule (“Don’t f—k this up.”); John Kerry off the trail; Bill Clinton on the trail; scandals (which the White House will be sure to tell you on Wednesday cost their side a dozen House seats); Rumsfeld and the Army Times.