How I Know Obama Is Going to Win

Over the weekend we were out at the Big Lots in Martinsburg, West Virginia, buying decorations for our sukkah (Christmas tree decorations which we convert to Judaism at the check-out counter, actually) and I noticed in the parking lot not one but two Ford F-150 pick-up trucks with Obama bumper stickers. Ford F-150s! West Virginia! Ford F-150s have always been, for me, a leading indicator of Republicanism. They're the opposite of Subarus, in other words. In fact, when my Washington friends tell me they don't know a single person planning to vote for McCain, I ask them if they know anyone who owns an F-150. Now remember, the F-150 has been, for the past eighteen years or so, the number-one-selling vehicle in America.  Of course, it doesn't sell so well in Chevy Chase and Cleveland Park, and most people around me couldn't pick an F-150 out of a line-up.

But: Things are changing. Remember, of course, that West Virginia is in the McCain camp; it's where Hillary crushed Obama, and a place whose white residents sometimes have a difficult time acknowledging Obama's Christianity, among other things. So this was quite a revolutionary find, two F-150s in the same parking lot.

I realize that this doesn't qualify as a scientific survey, but I thought I'd pass it on anyway.