Throughout the election, UVa Professor Larry Sabato has maintained a “wait-and-see” attitude toward this election. The bottom-line numbers were close. It was still an election where anything could happen.

This week, the Crystal Ball has a different outlook: “With this issue, the Crystal Ball now has Obama over the magic number of 270 for the first time, with potentially many more electoral votes to be piled on top”

So let’s whoop and holler–for about five minutes. Then let’s get back to work. I can’t help noting, for example, that Sabato still has Virginia in the “undecided” column. We could do something about that.