You can feel it in the polls and you can see it in the eyes of Democrats: barring a catastrophe, George W. Bush has won this election. It may even be that, contrary to most expectations, his margin of victory will be large enough to prevent the Democrats from even attempting to steal the election. As Hugh Hewitt likes to remind us, “if it’s not close, they can’t cheat.” Well, it looks to me like it won’t be close.

The Democratic plans to repeat the Florida recount, only with an outcome favourable to them, will be useless unless they’ve got material to play with. If both Florida and Ohio and within a few thousands votes and they make up the President’s majority in the Electoral College, they’ll have room to unleash the hell they’ve planned for us. If the President wins by eight million votes and eighty Electoral Votes, they won’t have anything like room for that.

I think that Bush will win by a comfortable margin in the popular vote: perhaps 52%-46% and that he’ll win with a surprisingly high number of Electoral Votes. Higher than 320 and perhaps as many as three hundred and sixty.

The real tip-off isn’t the battleground state polls: it’s the Blue State polls. States where the President is within striking range, even at this late date, include Maine, New Jersey and Hawaii. In places like New York and California, where Gore won by millions of votes, the margins are much narrower than before. All evidence suggests that the President now is in at least as strong a place as he was at this time in 2000: and there’s no DUI to drag down his numbers at the last minute this time.

Even better for the President are the various signs that he will perform much better among blacks than he did in 2000. Those calculating polls of likely voters based upon the results of the 2000 Election are assuming that blacks will turn out at the same rate they did then, when the Democratic ran the most demagogic campaign among minorities in recent memory. If 20% of blacks vote for the President (the best number in recent memory) it will not only seal the President’s victory, it may also mark the start of a new era in American politics and signal the end of the one-party stranglehold maintained by the Democrats over African-Americans.

The Bush landslide will be more significant than any of the other recent landslide elections because it looks like he’s going to have coattails. From the looks of the numbers, the odds are high that the President will help to pull off Republican Senate victories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Alaska. The Democrats retain an advantage in only three of those races at the moment: Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Alaska and, frankly, I believe that twenty-plus point Bush wins in all of those states will be more than enough to pull all of those Senate candidates through. That means a 56-44 Senate, almost enough for the President to push through things with a filibuster-proof majority.

When we win, we will have to understand two important things. First, we will have to accept that this is but one battle in an unending war for the soul of America, the future of Western Civilization, and the security of the world. But, more importantly than that, we’ll have to accept something else: that the President and his team have done something amazing.

This President has been subjected to a campaign of personal attacks unlike any in American history. While other Presidents have faced similar sorts of animosity from their opponents, few have faced the sort of total war that has been launched against President Bush. The President has been subjected to attack not only through standard political means, but through an unprecedented cultural assault. The left has thrown all of the elements of our culture that they’ve captured at this President with astounding force: the newspapers, the movies, television, popular music, and academia have all done their worst to this President. They’ve staked their own future upon this moment. All of the accumulated capital of a generation-long march through the institutions has been bet on this spin of their wheel.

If we play our cards right we can make this the left’s invasion of Russia. Overextended and resource-starved, they will be vulnerable to our attacks in the wake of the Bush landslide. The day of the election is not the time for rest: it is the time to begin to prepare the final all-out battle to re-take our culture and our country from the liberal cultural cabal that have seized power in recent years.