Afterthought:
Maybe the terrorists aren’t as scary as our own state’s political bloggers. To wit, VOLuntarily Conservative reported on the straw poll for the 2008 Presidential race:

1427 votes were cast. Out of his vote total, 81.7% of Frist’s votes came from Tennessee voters. Out of all voters from Tennessee, 42% chose a candidate besides Senator Frist.

The Tennessee Politics blog had a decidedly different tone, stating that Frist was “tepidly received.” Of course, that post was made before the results of the straw poll were in, so perhaps they should have been kinder… the whole hindsight thing, you know.

I’m not much better at predicting political races, but I’ve learned to stay away from making forecasts unless it’s qualified as a WAG.