Quick! Before all the polls make it obvious: The Gnomon hereby predicts that the American People will display the communal wisdom for which they are justly famous, and re-elect George W. Bush to a second term as President by 51% of the popular vote. Senator Kerry will receive 48% and Nader, the Libertarians, etc., will have a healthy 1%.

We also predict that media pundits will be befuddled as to how this could happen, but will finally discover some reason why the nation really didn't want to re-elect Bush but did anyway.

Longtime readers will recall that we did pretty well predicting the mid-terms.