Toure: No matter who wins, America will walk away dazed

>>> we're days away from a nerve-racking election day and an epic conclusion of a battle. the two men are as different as i dichotomy from a novelist's imagination. past versus present with romney looking ward cleaver and obama embodying a racial presence. the other never knew his father and consciously shaped himself the way many heroes of american literature have. they're the plutocrat versus the cool guy. the stiff stepdad versus the pop culture icon. mr. capable who can solve your problems versus mr. likable who cares about your problems but failed to solve all of them in four years. obama is no longer the inspirational bigger than politics symbol and the shadow from his '08 campaign has dogged had his campaign. it's been a campaign that hasek posed the fault lines in the american soul revealing the electorate to have a racial gap, a gender gap , and geographical gap. the most frightening undercurrent is the truth gap. we're two tribes living in alternate realities believing only the facts and polls that bolster our thesis and attacking all data that challenges our thesis. this is human nature but the american political landscape has a particularly malignant case of selective truthism disease. this election has given us people wanted to fact check the fact checkers and seen gallup dismissed by the left when it showed a large romney lead and nate silver dism.d. issed by the right for showing a large obama lead. we rumble toward november 6th with most of the country certain their guy is leading and their ideology is about to be vindicated leaving the left and the right like two mac trucks racing toward each other, impact is certain, pain is assured. no matter who wins, half of the country will walk away dazed and hurt and angry and certain the election is gist one more fact they need not take as legitimate because it doesn't fit the narrative they prefer. in '08 obama won by 7 points. after a close election , poll trutherism could morph into election trutherism and in an attempt to secede where 49% of the country acts on the feeling they don't need to respect the president. right now the american family doesn't know how to agree to disagree. we are the divided states of america. art of