The Minnesota Supreme Court will not hear Norm Coleman's appeal of the Senate election result until June.

June?! Are you serious????

How can they let this drag on two more months? My God, Bush v. Gore didn't go on this long!

Meanwhile, poor Senator Amy Klobuchar soldiers on as the only senator representing her state. Basically as she ( Read more... )

Via Balloon Juice:

This is, quite honestly, the first semi-sane thing I have seen written at Red State in several years:

We Lost Because We Suck: There’s no conspiracy, really.
So, we have this great big circular firing squad going about whether to purge moderates, or socons, or fiscons, or libertarians, or Methodists, whatever. No, Virginia, there ( Read more... )

You may have heard about this already on the Intertubes, but I have to share. It is simultaneously one of the grossest AND most hilarious things I've ever seen. ( Tucking away for sensitive viewers )

But at long last... change has come to Alaska!

WASHINGTON - Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich after the last large batch of votes was counted Tuesday.

The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count.

That's an ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the comfy chair, sipping wine and smelling the lasagna baking in the oven. I love this recipe! Here's what I've been reading today:

NY Times article on voting in Levittown, PA. My parents live there, but I doubt they would have spoken to the interviewer:
...I traveled again to Levittown on Election Day to see how people would vote and ( Read more... )

Has anyone seen vote totals for either Bob Barr or Ron Paul this year? If any of the newsies have mentioned it, I didn't catch it. And neither Keith nor Rachel have said anything. I thought perhaps in the South or Midwest they might draw enough away from McCain to give Obama a chance.

If you find anything like that, please point the way. Thank ya!

I've been looking for this clip all day, and finally found it on the YouTubes. When Gene starts talking about how he wishes his in-laws had lived to see this... scuse me, I have something in my eye again!

Remember that great picture of teenaged Bill Clinton shaking the hand of President Kennedy, and how Clinton points to that as when he first thought of public service?

I wonder if one day, the little boy in this photo will say this was the day he decided what he'd be when he grew up?

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