Not a fatalist -- a realist.
For my vote to count, two highly unlikely things would need to happen:
1. Illinois, where Big Labor rules, would vote Republican -- ain't gonna happen. (Note to those who don't grok the reasoning: if the state votes Republican, ALL of the electoral college votes in the state get voted Republican.)
2. Bush would need to be on the verge of losing. It'll be a landslide, and the exercise of picking a Demo candidate is really only masturbatory. Which is why I wanted someone like Dean. He'd still lose, like any of them will, but he'd give the Democratic party one helluva much-needed enema.