Four weeks from now, we will vote. Young people and African Americans will vote in far greater numbers than ever. Registration is off the charts.

A friend says that her African-American election district keeps running out of voter registration forms, and prospective voters are being encouraged to register on line.

I would like to predict a landslide. It could happen. But we do not know.

But we need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the...