^No, it's no problem at all, I tend to get a little off topic.

Trying to figure out what's what in this is very important and it's just frustrating that so many of us don't even bother trying. We obviously have a wide range of opinions but I'm on this forum a lot and I see off-hand comments without any actual evidence all the time. We just need to be smarter about everything.

I also think Obama is better for us (even though if I could vote I would be leaning towards McCain) but McCaskill worries me and I haven't seen Durbin being involved in his campaign in some time. Just a cause for concern.

I think the VP choices for both should tell us a lot about them. If you see that Obama picks McCaskill (low chances but she IS a woman so who knows) or McCain picks Pawlenty (also diminishing odds) either of those choices will be a very bad sign for us.