"...a pathetic Hail Mary pass"

So sayeth Jonathan Alter on Countdown last night, in a scathing piece by Sir Keith that should pretty much put the final nail in Rick Santorum's electoral coffin, given that Man-on-Dog is 18 points down in the polls.

This isn't to say that a few voting machines won't be bedded down the night before the election at poll workers' houses as they were in the California Busby/Bilbray election this month, or that a few smartcards won't be replaced to change the outcome, which will then be attributed to "a last-minute surge by Evangelical voters" -- but on the off chance that we get a serious election conducted by serious people, Little Ricky will be history.