As per my custom of previous election years, watch this space for significant developments.

Polls in the East close in a little under an hour and a half.

8 PM Update:PA flips early for Obama. I seem to recall in 2004 sitting up until the wee small hours of the morning waiting for the PA projection ( Read more... )

I actually think we witnessed something rare and wonderful on Monday and didn't totally realize it at the time: a flat-out collision between tactics and principles on the floor of the House of Representatives. Seriously. If this post ( Read more... )

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11467

I...kinda wish Barney Frank were my congressman, because that's some quality snark right there, ladies and gentlemen.

Not only is Johnny McMaverick objectively pro-pedophile in his opposition to teaching children how to differentiate good touch from bad touch and seek help from adult authority figures, he is also objectively pro-rapist ( Read more... )

FYI ~

The eight women you talked to at a Republican campaign event =/= 'working moms.' As a matter of fact, as far as this working mom is concerned, any job that allows you to charge the state you run more than I make in a single year for the privilege of working from home on top of your already enormous salary AND your husband's big oil lucre ( Read more... )

In case it has escaped your attention, you have been 'in Washington' as a member of the Senate for longer than anyone else on your own ticket, or on the Democratic ticket. Claiming that you and your thoroughly corrupt running mate are going to 'go to Washington' to 'clean it up'? Makes you look as though you think the American polity actually IS ( Read more... )

...it's on past my bed-time. Seriously, it is. But this? This is so delicious I want to fly to wherever that show is shot and LICK Jon Stewart, then run away giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin Bingo!

http://www.youaredumb.net/node/1146

....Let's all try not to die of alcohol poisoning during the speech tonight, mmmmkay?

From a comments thread at the American Spectator:

“Since the McCain campaign has released a statement declaring that 17-year-old Bristol Palin now faces “the responsibilities of adulthood,” might I be so bold as to suggest that they arrange a press conference where Bristol can attempt to address the horrible embarrassment she’s caused her parents ( Read more... )