this i promise you

happy new year and all the goodness of 2008 to come!

stats. i will keep stats. not of professional athletes but our 2008 candidates for the office of the president. i'll keep stats of their promises.

reduced to nothing but numbers will be the lunch rush hour at the corner diner photo op or the one at driving supporters into a frenzy in the high school's gym and in its place an analog chart, no make that lists. basic. very basic. oh yes, let's begin.