Here's an interesting opinion column from the New York Post. The key quote for me is this:

The Republicans have put themselves on the wrong side of a generation gap. And it won't be easily papered over as today's young voters age into older voters — who are more likely to show up at the polls.

When it's one of your first presidential elections — as it is for me — it's no trivial matter that voting Republican means a vote for a party catering to the worst prejudices about our brothers, sisters, friends from high school, college roommates, co-workers, bosses, drinking buddies and the like.

I'm not sure I can do it. And, if it weren't for the War on Terror, I know few for whom it would even be a question.

As much as this focuses on the Republicans, it also speaks to the Democrats. Democrats must aknowledge that national security is the main issue in the election. Do not pretend that it's the economy or education or the minimum wage. The war on terror is what voters most care about. It will decide this race.