If You Believe . . .

We're not in the endorsement business, nor are we going to predict a winner, because we don't want to tell you who to vote for. Instead, we'll just say that you have a decision to make on Tuesday. You can vote for the candidate of your choice, or you can sit home and watch others on TV decide for you.

If you do vote, make sure it's for the right reasons. We've listed some of those for the presidential race between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, along with the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken. It goes like this . . .

Vote for Barack Obama if you believe . . .

• eight years of President George W. Bush is enough.
• the war in Iraq needs to end.
• McCain is too old to be president, and Governor Sarah Palin is too inexperienced to step in should the worst happen.
• the middle class won't be soaked in taxes.
• American prestige at home and abroad needs to be improved.
• his life story confirms that in America, anyone can run for President. Anyone.

Vote for John McCain if you believe . . .

• the policies of Bush should continue in some form.
• the war in Iraq needs to end--in victory.
• Obama is too inexperienced to be President.
• the middle class will be soaked in taxes.
• it's a dangerous world out there, and you need an experienced hand at the wheel.
• Palin would make a great vice-president. You betcha.
• his life story confirms that it's never too late to be President.

Vote for Bob Barr or Ralph Nader if you believe . . .

• neither Obama or McCain has the chops to run the country.

In the U.S. Senate race, vote for Norm Coleman if you believe . . .

• he will be a different senator once President Bush is out of office, reaching across the aisle to get things done.
• Al Franken is a raving lunatic who writes porn and makes offensive jokes.
• that Franken is behind a lawsuit days before the election, alleging that a top Coleman donor used a Texas company to pay $75,000 to a Minneapolis insurance firm employing Coleman's wife.

Vote for Al Franken if you believe . . .

• six years of Coleman is enough.
• he had nothing to do with the lawsuit allegedly slandering Coleman's wife.
• someone with no previous political experience deserves the job over someone who does.
• Coleman's too much in lockstep with the Bush administration.
• bailing out Wall Street was a bad idea.
• the Democrats need a veto-proof majority in Congress.
  

Vote for Dean Barkley if you believe . . .

• this campaign between two guys from New York City has been the worst in recorded history.

May the best person win. Or is that too much to ask?