With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. Last week the New York Times ran an article about Black voters in North Carolina who assumed that their votes would not be counted. In addition, the climate of fear stoked by the McCain campaign and its surrogates has added a raw edge to the campaign's final day. A recent ad titled CRISIS released by a Republican 527 blends fears of another 9/11, the financial crisis, and images of Barack Obama and a van of terrorists. Obama has stayed closer to the reality-based world, releasing an ad that highlights Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain. Scary enough for some.

So will voters vote out of fear or hope? 

Sally Kohn, director of the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change, Rev.Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, the author of the forthcoming Gods, Gays, and Guns: Religion and the Future of Democracy, Chris Kromm, the Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, and Air America’s Lionel discuss how the politics of fear have been played in this campaign and whether it has worked. Our guests also discuss the day after and the post-election game.