Some are more upbeat than others

Candidates upbeat about vote

Sometimes it's hard to be a candidate:

Gov. Bob Riley, former Chief Justice Roy Moore and Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley each flew from one end of the state to the other.

Former Gov. Don Siegelman spoke outside the federal courthouse in Montgomery during a break in his corruption trial.

I didn't even think about that. Siegelman is awfully good at the retail politics level, and he's not getting a chance to practice it.

Anyway, everyone expects Riley and Baxley to win handily. Roy's down about 40 points according to the polls; he claims to have secret voters but I don't think there are possibly enough of them to make a difference. I don't know if he'll step aside or try to run a write-in candidacy as an independent.