What I'm looking at

A yellow-dog Democrat could be permitted some gloom and depression as a presidential race which should be a runaway is, instead, a nail biter. Some friends of mine are actually depressed. Be of good cheer! Try to take a look at the big picture. All may not be lost. I keep my perspective with three sites:

• Princeton Election Consortium — A first draft of electoral history
• HuffPost Obama vs. Romney Electoral Map
• NY Times: Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog

Robert Malchman reminds me of a site I followed in 2008 that somehow dropped off my list:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/