hello, my name is Hedgehog, and I suffer from snatch defeat from the jaws of victory syndrome.

I've seen Democratic candidates beaten or been cheated of election victory by the likes of Nixon, Reagen, Bush1 & Bush 2.

I'm still pinching myself to make sure Obama won in 2008.

Can my country hit the jack pot twice in a row?

Is today the day California Peggy faces surgery for her gall bladder?

Any photos of business at Chik-fil-a today?

How much government money have the Birthers spent?

Will Mitt change people's view of the wealthy?

I think the American myth is that the wealthy earned their money by being smarter than the rest us, working harder, taking more risks. Since Mitt failed on all three, will people begin to realize that often it's as much a crap shoot as winning the lottery? (to mix a metaphor!)

"Maine voices: Catholic group's anti-gay marriage effort contradicts its history

"NORTH WATERBORO - The Venerable Father Michael McGivney was a parish priest in New Haven, Conn., at the end of the 19th century.

He watched as his congregation struggled through the pain of anti-Catholic discrimination. His congregants toiled under poor working conditions in sweatshops, in which many were injured or killed. At the time, insurance companies would not cover Catholic immigrants, leaving many Catholic widows and orphans penniless and dependent on the charity of the church.

Father McGivney created the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal organization to alleviate the suffering this discrimination caused and to create a life insurance program to protect the economic stability and security of these families.

From 2008 to 2010, the Knights of Columbus has donated more than $3 million to weaken the stability and security of gay and lesbian families by funding campaigns to deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry. I urge the Knights of Columbus to remember its history and its pro-family principles and to stop funding campaigns that write discrimination into the laws of Maine and other states."

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/catholic-groups-anti-gay-marriage-effort-contradicts-its-history_2012-07-30.html

Question about tiling the bathroom now -

We live in an Italianate clapboard, c. 1880. We're looking ahead three or four years to replacing the flat roof with a third floor under a peaked roof and possibly adding a room over the single story at the back of the house. The roof would be over and the added room would adjoin the current bath room. The bathroom is in desperate need of re-habbing now. If we replaced the tub surround with tile, would we run a risk of damaging the tile during the extensive construction down the road?

What did Romney save the Utah Olympics from?

Are you old enough to remember the accusations that this Chinese swimmer cheated?

My biggest fear this election:

How many people would Republicans have to turn away from the polls in which key states to toss the election to Romney? I can foresee a situation in which Obama is the clear winner in the popular vote, but Romney takes the Electoral College.