Now to the polls, there continues to be reasons to be optimistic:

FOX News Poll: Obama's Edge Over McCain Narrows by 6% in just 1 week
The race for the White House has tightened significantly -- with Barack Obama now ahead of John McCain by three percentage points -- according to a FOX News poll released Thursday.  
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/30/fox-news-poll-obamas-edge-mccain-narrows/

As the candidates make their closing arguments before the election, the race has tightened with Barack Obama now leading John McCain by 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday. Last week Obama led by 49-40 percent among likely voters.
click here to view the raw data:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/103008_poll.pdf

Florida is not lost, with Governor Christ finally campaigning hard both in person and via direct mail, it looks like we may be gaining…
Poll gives McCain lead in Fla. Early voting
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881029048
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack Obama among Floridians who have already voted.
And Republicans continued to show a traditional strength, leading 50 percent to the Democrats' 30 percent in the 1.2 million absentee ballots already returned.

Wonder what they know?
Survey: shows McCain beating Obama in Israel
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-McCain.php
An Israeli pollster says that if the country were on the U.S. election map, it would be bright red.  A survey of Americans in the Holy Land released Thursday found that absentee voters supported Republican John McCain over Barack Obama by a three-to-one margin.