In 1994, virtually all the election-eve polls showed that, while we were looking at a close race, the Democrats would retain control of the House and the Senate, if only by fairly thin margins. What those polls missed, of course, was intensity -- the fact that Republicans from one end of this country to the other were prepared to crawl through busted glass to vote against Bill Clinton's Democratic party.

Based on the early voting trends, I think there's a good chance that we'll see the reverse today, with Democrats heading to the polls in record numbers to reject the GOP's pre-9/11 politics of distortion, division and diversion. (That's one of the unwritten stories in this election, isn't it? For all their talk of a post-9/11 world, the Republicans are the ones trapped in the old-style politics ... because they can't win without it.)

That's a consummation devoutly to be wished, folks. And you and I know exactly what we have to do to make it happen.

See you at the polls.

UPDATE/RELATED: Ogged correctly notes that "it's not too late to help. You can still sign up to volunteer at the Kerry site to get information about your local offices, which will probably be making (important!) calls to swing states to make sure Kerry voters are going to vote. Some random guy in the Bay Area started getting friends together to help out on election night, and now he has about 150 folks ready to call, and when I was doing call center allocation last night, it was a huge help to have that extra capacity. If you're not doing anything else, make the calls. You can even probably go down to your local office and pitch in and watch the results come in with people who want W to lose just as much as you do."