special. he thought one thing that was happening is in nonbattleground states, romney enthusiasm was so strong that they were trying to run up the popular vote, which gives that ad more, on the national level, more impact. can i just say how weird it is, like how many people do you know in america who cast their vote and go home and e-mail a political scientist to ask what to make of their experience at the polls? it just tells you what a freak meacham is. but what s great about that ad, just from a purely democratic standpoint, is just that it says essentially not just your vote counts, which is what it says. but implicitly it says you don t want to go back to bush. it s just the implicit messages, don t let us and that rhymes with what the campaign s message is about, romney in general. so there s a very kind of like it s working on two levels there. and willie, 2000 continues to haunt democrats late into the night in their dreams. if you want to encourage your base to go out