Last e-mail for a while:

K-Lo:
I live in Southern New Hampshire, about 20 miles too far north to cast a vote for Scott Brown tomorrow, but, as a conservative living in the Boston media market, I have really been enjoying the Brown surge (I’m a recent transplant from Vermont, where conservatives arguably do even worse politically than in MA). Still, I’m very nervous about this “peaking early” concept your liberal Brookline correspondent referenced. Over the weekend, while reading the “Globe” online and watching political ads on TV, I had this odd sense that Brown had peaked at the wrong time. It feels like the Dems finally “get it;” they finally understand that Brown had a real shot at this thing. I feel like if the election had been Saturday Brown would have won, but now I fear that the fear of defeat has driven the Dems to frantic GOTV effort that will topple the Brown insurgency. Any one else have that unsettling feeling? Also, while I agree that even a close loss would send a resounding message, I worry that a 10-point Coakley win tomorrow–by no means out of the realm of possibility here–will allow the Dems to claim that this whole “Brown” thing was just something artificially stirred up by us “tea-baggers.” I guess what I’m saying is, while I’m hoping for the best, I’m afraid we may have set the bar on this one a little too high, and falling short of those high expectations may do our side more damage in blocking the big O’s agenda than the loss of Teddy’s seat would harm the Dems.
P.S., I’m not at all reassured by these “everyone I know is voting for Brown” emails. I lived in Vermont for almost 30 years. Suffice it to say that Sen. Sanders managed a 2 to 1 win in ‘06 even though “everyone I knew” was voting for Tarrant. Go figure.
I’m not trying to be a downer, but let’s not start counting our chickens just yet…