When white people got in that voting booth, they were going to vote for white. No one white would vote for a black man, and that included Dad. It would be the biggest landslide in history for John McCain.

That was Dad's opinion. He's 72 and from Tennessee, and as you can see, held the same view you might expect from someone of that age and background.

But then, my aunt and Dad's old work friends started e-mailing him. Their e-mails contained revelatory information: Barack Obama was both a Muslim and a Socialist, and likely not even a citizen of the United States! Not only were the mainstream media sleeping on this, but apparently the FBI and CIA, too.

"That's ridiculous! Anybody knows that ain't true!," Dad said, and would regularly go to Snopes.com to look up these e-mail rumors and bust them. But when he sent his friends and sister links disproving their e-mails it didn't dissuade them. They kept sending more of the same rumors. "It's like they don't even care if they're lying!," Dad said.

Then one day, as he fumed about the latest B.S. GOP e-mail forward, he said, "I hope he wins!"

So Dad registered to vote for the first time in 12 years and stood in line two-and-a-half hours with me to cast his ballot for Obama. Now he's antsy because the touch screen he was using was acting funny and he's afraid his vote might've been counted for McCain. "Do you guess they counted my vote right?," he keeps saying. From swearing he wouldn't vote for Obama to being afraid his Obama vote wouldn't be counted correctly.

A friend of his who was also being Cc'd on these anti-Obama e-mails, but never got involved, called him up one day to say he had also just voted for Barack Obama. "I'd rather vote for a half breed than a half wit," he said.

So these are some really amazing times we're in. I think we might see a landslide all right, but it won't be for John McCain.