THEY WON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! The Democratic get-out-the-vote effort seems to have kicked it up a notch: when I walked out of the house this morning, I saw the neighborhood festooned with signs reading “Vote or Die!” This on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which is so reliably Democratic that the Republicans often don’t bother to run candidates for local elections. It makes me wonder what they’re up to in the swing states–“Vote or we’ll not only kill you, we’ll torture your family!”