Truthdig just posted this video interview with Gore Vidal, one of my favorite American writers.
Selected quotes:

So, my fellow countrymen, as I sit here, not yet at Gettysburg, I have a notion that this is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back….

Am I a conspiracy buff? No, but I’m a conspiracy analyst
and I know where there’s a conspiracy and how it is working.

So this [election] is the last chance really… to have a new, a clean sweep… Now it has got to happen or — Welcome to the Third Reich.