The eight years of political misery that began with the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision might be but a harbinger of a rough November. From the New York Times:

Twelve years after a too-close-to-call presidential contest imploded in a hail of Florida punch card ballots and a bitter 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling for George W. Bush, the country’s voting systems remain as deeply flawed as ever with any prospect of fixing them mired in increasing levels of partisanship.