The Man Who Knows Just Enough doffs his slicker at 1:55 p.m., and says, "Voting in precincts South of the Slot today is running heavier than in November, in some places up by about a third. But heavy rain has started. ... Voting in the Richmond, the Sunset, and West Portal is about the same as in November. But these are precincts with heavy absentee and prior-to-polling-day voting. ...
"Last night and early this morning, the operatives in each mayoral campaign were in prepare-to-be-shocked mode. A natural enough response. But there were a couple interesting things in their affects. ... The previously confident Gonzalez people were expressing apprehension that their candidate had peaked last week. ... The Newsom people were rueing the Angela deal. ... Long and short, on Election Eve, you have both sides genuinely concerned that they're each about to lose. ... That's odd phenom."
TMWKJE, thus and then, closes with this advice then to each side, "'Claim everything, concede nothing -- until the last vote is counted. And then holler "Fraud!"' Those words, of course, from George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, circa 1899. ...
