Good to see Jonah and Andrew checking in. These days I get a bit nervous when nobody shows up before ten. I feel a bit like Comical Ali going ahead with the morning press conference to announce categorically there are no Americans in Baghdad, unaware that everyone in the presidential palace scrammed to Tikrit an hour before dawn. What happened to the good old days when Jonah did his FPOD at a minute after midnight rather than 10.37am?

I mention this only because folks are beginning to notice:

The Corner is getting quieter and quieter as malaise sets in. You can hear the crickets chirping and 10th story windows being thrown open. But why..?
Memo to right-wing yellow belly columnists: it was always going to be this way. McCain was always going to receive unfair press, his supporters were always going to be called racists, and the polls covered were always going to be the ones that made Obama look good. If you really didn’t see this coming then you should turn your Mac in to your editor and call it a day…
The media use these polls for only one reason: to affect voter turnout. If they can convince enough people that the race is already over, then those people will stay home and not vote at all. The press want McCain supporters to believe, like the commentators have, that McCain’s already lost. If voter turnout ends up reflecting the sudden drought of bloggers at The Corner, then Obama should win by a shutout.

Just for the record, nobody’s jumping out of tenth floor windows here. Jonah was down at the sleazy waterfront dive checking whether his fake Paraguayan passport is ready yet, and Jay was at the end of the rotting wharf gazing at the horizon and looking for the guy he gave five grand to for a berth on the last tramp steamer out.

C’mon, guys, blog early, blog often.