I can't resist inserting this last one even though the election is over. I took it intending to post this prior to the election. I had errands to run on two consecutive days about one week prior to the election which took me north/south and east/west in Spokane. I started counting yard signs for both presidential candidates. On the first day the count was Obama=20, McCain=0. The only McCain sign I saw on the first day was at the Replubican headquarters office. On the second day the count was Obama=18, McCain=3. Hmmm...... 38 to 3. I am not a pollster so had no idea how to extrapolate that data into percentages, but it seemed to me that this was telling us something. Spokane is normally a Republican stronghold with a few Democractic breakthroughs. But, the dirth of McCain signs really made me wonder if I wasn't witnessing a shift in the winds.
And, it turns out, I was right! Spokane County and Whitman County (the county due south of Spokane) went for Obama while the rest of eastern WA was a sea of red.
