I'll leave all the facts and figures to the news organizations, but I would like to put it out there that Super Tuesday officially marks this as the best election ever. This is the first time that I can remember where I am going to be fully satisfied whoever wins the Democratic nomination, and I have a gut feeling that whoever wins will be rallied behind by most everyone in the liberal spectrum.

What is going on here? Where is the usual liberal splintering and disillusionment that I have grown so accustomed to? What, is there no Deanesque— or should I say Huckaberryesque&mdash:candidate to siphon off the party's enthusiasm? How the heck did MoveOn choose a candidate that could actually, realistically, win the nomination? By some great stroke of luck, the famous Democratic tendency towards self-destruction has been corralled and transformed into a positive force. More voters and more excitement is now being put into the selection of one of two very similar, mainstream candidates.

And you know what? I know that it'll get ugly one of these days, but it is great to see an election being played by increasing the vote count rather than dropping it.

This makes me feel better about not being confident of whom to vote for the morning I woke up. I have been leaning towards one candidate, but I am not at all upset to learn that my state was won by the candidate I did not vote for. I can be happy with the outcome, whatever it may be. Guilt-free wonkness. Awesome.

As far as the Republicans go, there nomination process looks very similar to what lead to John Kerry. I will be interested to see if they can rally behind a moderate. Stranger things have happened, but the one of biggest lessons of four years ago is that people vote for candidates, not against the alternative. Obama or Hillary hate alone will not be enough to win the election.

Comments anyone?