This will be my last pre-election dispatch from Birmingham. Tomorrow, I’m on the road to Chicago. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep you guys updated as to what’s going on in Illinois!\
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Looks like polls are holding steady with about a 6 point race. And even Zogby’s poll, much fluffed by the right, has moved back into familiar territory (h/t MyDD):\

“There are two full days to go before Election Day and obviously anything can happen, but it is hard to see where McCain goes from here,” pollster John Zogby said.\
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A special note to blogger friends: calm it down. Lay off the cable television noise and look at your baseball cards in your spare time. It is better for your (and everyone else’s) health.”

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Amen.\
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Hot Air asks “How soon will we know on election night?” and answers:\

Pretty soon, potentially. Via CNN, a rundown of when the polls in various battleground states close (all times ET):\

7 p.m. Indiana, Virginia\
7:30 p.m. Ohio, North Carolina\
8 p.m. Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri\
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9 p.m. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, North Dakota\
10 p.m. Nevada, Montana

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I didn\’92t include Iowa because it\’92s not a battleground anymore, assuming it ever was, but that\’92s also a 10 p.m. close for what it\’92s worth.

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Might be a quick night.\
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And, this is strange. Nazis endorse half-black presidential candidate Barack Obama (h/t Yglesias). This statement was written by Rocky Suhayda, chairman of the American Nazi Party, who lists his “likes” as “Hitler, white people.” Dislikes? “Jews, immigrants, multinational corporations.”\’a0 WARNING: Hate speech to follow, so avert your eyes if you don’t find crazy humorous at times:\

White people are faced with either a negro or a total nutter who happens to have a pale face. Personally I\’92d prefer the negro. National Socialists are not mindless haters. Here, I see a white man, who is almost dead, who declares he wants to fight endless wars around the globe to make the world safe for Judeo-capitalist exploitation, who supports the invasion of America by illegals\’96basically a continuation of the last eight years of Emperor Bush. Then, we have a black man, who loves his own kind, belongs to a Black-Nationalist religion, is married to a black women\’96when usually negroes who have \’91made it\’92 immediately land a white spouse as a kind of prize\’96that\’92s the kind of negro that I can respect. Any time that a prominent person embraces their racial heritage in a positive manner, it\’92s good for all racially minded folks. Besides, America cares nothing for the interests of the white American worker, while having a love affair with just about every non-white on planet Earth. It\’92d be poetic justice to have a non-white as titular chief over this decaying modern Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Poetic justice? Wow. That’s cute. So the Nazi freaks are willing to overcome their hatred in the name of irony. Neo-nazism has lost its bite, it seems. In some strange way, I’m almost disappointed in them.\
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This picture is priceless–a Klansmen with an Obama button.\
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There are several more statements, many much more vile (this one is relatively mild), including one from a guy that lists his likes as “White people, karaoke, environmentalists.”\
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If you want to see what Obama’s chances look like from a different perspective, check out Birmingham Weekly contributor Matt Hooper’s Battleground entries (and love his illustrations):\
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New Mexico\
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North Carolina\
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Florida\
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Virginia\
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Ohio\
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Philadelphia