Standing athwart history, yelling, “I’m not wearing any pants!”

As we get into the final twenty-four hours, some notes for us McCain supporters to cling to bitterly…

1. The IBD-TIFF poll, which was the most accurate poll from 2004, only has Obama up by two nationally. They also had this to say…

The race tightened again Sunday as independents who’d been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a toss-up. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, moved back into the lead with men, padded his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates.

2. The Mason Dixon polls, which were the most accurate state polls in 2004, have all the battleground states within the margin of error. While they’re all former Bush states (except for one) and Obama is up in most of them, what might give McCain a little bit of good news is that the undecideds range from 5% to 10%. Speaking of undecideds…

3. There are twice as many undecideds this year as they were in 2004, and a number of polls say that they are disproportionately white…and disproportionately former Hillary Clinton supporters.

4. A dead heat in Minnesota?

5. Just yesterday, the Obama campaign sent out an emergency e-mail to their Pennsylvania supporters that they aren’t going to make their phone-bank quota and need their help.

And as a bonus, the coal industry in Pennsylvania and Ohio might be interested in this…