This all-important campaign seems to be going on forever, with strong partisans on each side making the case for their respective candidates. Consumers are being blizzarded by e-mail and buttonholed by friends to voice their support and cast their vote...
Throughout the vast ballroom, collective breaths are being held. People sit on the edge of their plush velvet chairs. Among the assembled, one pushes a stray hair back into place, another adjusts the bow tie that came with the rented tux, a third mentally...