I’m not sure what this means, if anything, but a few days ago my daughter, a staunch conservative, and I, were having a discussion about the coming election. I stated that I thought that Obama would win the election by a landslide, defining landslide as over 60% of the popular vote. She disagreed and stated she thought he would only win by 1%. My 11 year old grandson, who was reading a book while my daughter and I discussed our differing opinions, piped up and opined that he thought McCain would win by 1 to 2 percent. Somewhat surprised, I asked him why he thought that. He said that he and all his friends in school discussed politics during their free time and based on his (and their) reading of the newspapers, watching of television news, etc. felt that McCain had the more substantive position.

I said, “I thought all you guys did was play video games”. He said, “Just after school, Gramps”.

Just in case anyone wonders about his use of the term substantive, this is the kid that told me when asked what he thought about a particular popular movie I had taken him to see, “Well, Gramps, I don’t believe that the writers established a firm contextual reference for the character’s motivations.”

Since this demographic is way to young to vote, as I prefaced this comment, I’m not sure what it means, if anything, but perhaps it does bode well for future elections.