Historic Election ... Really?

Election 2008 is under way right now. John McCain is losing to Barack Obama 174-69 in the electoral vote tally, according to CNN. Two hundred seventy electoral votes are required to win.

Pundits keep calling this election historic.

You wanna' know something? It's a presidential election. All presidential elections are historic. It's like kind of their nature. It's not like historians don't bother to keep records on who wins and loses these things. It's not like they keep records of the big ones and skip less-important ones. They're all important. The word "historic" sounds rather annoying tonight.