My final election projections will be coming later today, when I isolate myself from the political punidts and prove my genius and political savvy. For now, I'll leave you with this thought from the most influential Christian intellectual of the twentieth entury:

"Our culture knows little of the use and abuse of power; but we (now) have to use power in global terms. Our idealists are divided between those who would renounce the responsibilities of power for the sake of preserving the purity of our soul and those who are ready to cover every ambiguity of good and evil in our actions by the frantic insistence that any measure taken in a good cause must be unequivocally virtuous. We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimized."

---Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952