Perverse thoughts...

...about the election.

After seeing a couple state polls this week showing Kerry's lead in Pennsylvania increasing to close to the point of statistical significance for the first time in a while, I've strangely found myself both happy and disappointed.

Its of course a nice feeling to think about the strong possibility of those 21 EVs in Kerry's column. And it reflects well on all the campaign work done to date. Yet it also makes election day less exciting around here. After committing to be a DNC legal team poll monitor for 13 hours on election day and after attending two trainings specifically for election day and also completing the DNC's little online thing, I think part of me was actually secretly rooting for Pennsylvania to remain a toss-up right until November 2.

Its still not "safe" of course, so nobody's celebrating or dropping their guard yet. But after months of seeing our state in the same light as Ohio and Florida, it could be a bizarre let down for everyone in the state who will be working election day. I guess there will be one last round of polling numbers out before Tuesday, but for now, PA might not be where the "action" is.