The L.A. times has a good popup interactive electoral map that lets you try to figure out who's gonna win and what are the key states by assigning them to one or the other

If you're betting Kerry's gonna win -- in the unlikely event that he does, you could make some cake through offshore betting:

The Boston Review publishes intelligent articles on a variety of political and literary topics. In the April/May issue they published End of the Wild -- a frightfully sober assessment of trajectory of extinction.

Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself.
-- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism