I ask [Judge Judy] about the election. She says it is touch and go. She is a friend of McCain - "a real meat-and-potatoes guy" - but likes Obama. He represents youth and hope and the capacity to trust, since no one knows anything about him. Everyone wants to vote for him - but in the quiet and secrecy of the voting booth, who knows what will happen? Caution may triumph over trust.
A pity McCain didn't choose her, rather than Palin, for his running mate. Her idea of solving juvenile delinquency by having every woman implanted at birth with a contraceptive chip, to be taken out only on request, might cause some controversy. But one can see her point. At least every child born would be a wanted child, and not - as she sees it as being in the US - the result of an accident and a bottle of vodka.
She believes in the legal system. "All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars." And as I go she says, "It took them 13 years to get OJ Simpson but they got him. What goes around, comes around"