A lot of funny people aren’t finding a lot funny about these last, venomous throes of the election. Fortunately for the viewing public, they have excellent senses of humor about it.

John Stewart, for instance, doesn’t find it very funny at all that the McCain campaign decided to divide America into the “real,” “pro-Americans” of the small towns, and the rest of us. He devoted a show to the subject; one of his better ones.

And older comedians - from Danny DeVito to Carl Reiner - have put together a spot urging voters to get serious and embrace Obama.

On a yet more serious note, I offer another scaled-down installment of my study of the tectonic shift by GOP mainstays away from the deranged direction of the Party and toward Obama:

No less than 26 of the papers that endorsed Bush in 2004, have endorsed Obama this year - many of them conservative.