So, tomorrow we will have our answer, and 12 months of shaking, sweats, panic attacks, and nervous breakdowns will either be over, or will be given such an influx of raw material as to last the next four years. I think we will win tomorrow, and a new morning will break on America. But just in case, I believe an argument must be made for seceding from the Union. The time may be now.

Politics in Massachussetts is way out of the mainstream. We are derided across the red states for our Kennedys, our "french"-looking politicians, our gay marriages, our crazy road systems. If they feel that we are deserving of their scorn, then they shouldn't miss us all that much.

Besides which, we are Red Sox Nation. We already have the common feeling and common traditions necessary to be a nation.