She seems to think that this is a sure thing, Miss. Noonan writes:

Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.

All the vibrations are right. A person who is helping him who is not a longtime Romneyite told me, yesterday: “I joined because I was anti Obama—I’m a patriot, I’ll join up But now I am pro-Romney.” Why? “I’ve spent time with him and I care about him and admire him. He’s a genuinely good man.” Looking at the crowds on TV, hearing them chant “Three more days” and “Two more days”—it feels like a lot of Republicans have gone from anti-Obama to pro-Romney.

Something old is roaring back. One of the Romney campaign’s surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd “I worked the rope line, people wouldn’t let go of my hand.” It startled him. A former political figure who’s been in Ohio told me this morning something is moving with evangelicals, other church-going Protestants and religious Catholics. He said what’s happening with them is quiet, unreported and spreading: They really want Romney now, they’ll go out and vote, the election has taken on a new importance to them.

There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney. And there’s the thing about the yard signs. In Florida a few weeks ago I saw Romney signs, not Obama ones. From Ohio I hear the same. From tony Northwest Washington, D.C., I hear the same.

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I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled.

Romney ends most rallies with his story of the Colorado scout troop that in 1986 had an American flag put in the space shuttle Challenger, saw the Challenger blow up as they watched on TV, and then found, through the persistence of their scoutmaster, that the flag had survived the explosion. It was returned to them by NASA officials. When Romney, afterward, was shown the flag, he touched it, and an electric jolt went up his arm. It’s a nice story. He doesn’t make its meaning fully clear. But maybe he means it as a metaphor for America: It can go through a terrible time, a catastrophe, as it has economically the past five years, and still emerge whole, intact, enduring.

Maybe that’s what the coming Romney moment is about: independents, conservatives, Republicans, even some Democrats, thinking: We can turn it around, we can work together, we can right this thing, and he can help.

I am not one to get wobbly on the day before the election; but I do live by the credo of “Don’t get cocky.” I am a realist and I do not want to expect too much or place my bets. I, like many other people, pray that Noonan is right, and, maybe I am just a doubting Thomas. I am just taking nothing for granted and I pray for the best and prepare myself for the worst.

If Romney loses, it will not be for a lack of trying; he has had one heck of a good ground game going for him and the support and enthusiasm for him, since the primaries has built up a bit. The debates helped too, Obama’s first debate was a disaster and that helped bolster Romney’s claim that Obama was in over his head.

Again, to everyone; “Don’t get cocky.” If we win this, we win it, if not, we will try again in 4 years. If Romney loses, me and the entire blogosphere will have something to write about for the next 4 years. If Romney wins, we will have to be on the defensive more. As we know, the Democrats are quite vocal, when they are out of power. We will have to contend with accusations of everything from racism to voter fraud. I will be here to defend myself. Only thing that I honestly worry about, is civil unrest; please God, do not let that happen, it is November and most of America is cold. I pray that people will not riot, Florida and California is a worry, as they are warmer states. I doubt very highly, that anything will happen here; I will be watching the local news tomorrow and I will write here about anything that I happen to hear about, if anything at all.

I just hope that I can get up at a decent hour and go vote. Last night, was not a good night for me. I will try to get some sleep tonight.

I think everyone should just pray —- hard.

A sort of related video, by CBN, giving their predictions — again, everyone; don’t get cocky and just pray…hard: (Via CBNNews.com)

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