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Polling places moved from schools?

For the first time in my four years (and about 12 elections of one sort or other), my polling place will not be the elementary school a block away, but rather a church. Is this a wide spread movement?...

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Incentive to work in solid blue states

Apart from the fact that we should take nothing for granted, and that down ballot races are crucial as well, here is another thing to motivate us all even if we live in states like California and New...

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Flu vaccine opportunities

Lou Dobbs just mentioned that there is widespread gouging going on from companies who have the vaccine - up to 10 times the normal price. The Kansas Attorney General has sued one company based in...

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Election day suggestion

Heading into this election day is going to be one of the most whirlwind periods we have ever seen. The recent tradition is for candidates to go from east to west and late into the night, often doing...

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Bush/Kerry speech coverage

Richard Holbrooke just delivered a major smackdown to the Fox anchor post Bush speech She rambled on, he finally interrupted - are you going to just repeat Bush' speech or let me talk? CNN now has...

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A role for Bill Clinton

Needing to think of something else for a few minutes than 11/2, and anticipating Clinton's return tomorrow, I want to throw out an idea. If the Dems retake the House (yes, unlikely, but so was the GOP...

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Schadenfreude

Just a break, continue acting like we are 10 points behind, but as part of visualizing victory: Of the commentators/activists/surrogates out there, after the Kerry victory, whose sputtering do you most...

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Schadenfreude (revised) + POLL

As part of visualizing victory, let's anticipate whose on-air reaction we most want to see tomorrow night. I did one round of this & have revised based on many suggestions & the early voting....

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On Canada/blue states

Obviously the blue state/Canada reallignment speculation is mainly a fantasy and a way to dream. But my Canadian progressive friends are not amused, and react with eyerolls about how little...

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Shaming the wingnuts

Kos and lesser blogs have been effective in creating and spreading the great phrase "101 Fighting Keyboarders" and then challenging the wingnut trolls and others who back Bush to put themselves on the...

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Is Bush TRYING to make things worse?

As we watch Dante's Inferno continue to unfold under our eyes. I try to understand what is going on with the administration. In my work and life, I always have found trying to figure out the other...

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Major electoral college reform - how do we feel?

Below the radar, the California State Assembly has hitched on to an intriguing idea. http://www.latimes.com/... In brief, they passed a bill and sent it to the Senate a reform to California's electoral...

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If David Vitter resigns

I am not from Louisiana, but have a passing knowledge of its election law and local politics. It would be better for someone from there to greatly supplement what I am writing here. If more details of...

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ACTION ALERT: GOP California mischief

As most of you know, California has a fairly easy proposition process which overrides state law and anything the (overwhelmingly Democratic) Legislature can do. The GOP, clearly led by Karl Rove, wants...

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Petraeus as the GOP nominee?

Just had a thought - with the pygmies running in the GOP race, and Giuliani likely toxic (the recent immigration sanity from him won't help), what are the chances that if there is still a divided field...

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Doesn't Clinton need the FL, MI dooevers?

Pardon me if this has been written about. And also upfront - I am as ardent an Obama supporter as anyone here. Also because this was misunderstood, I am rewriting the beginning. Irrespective of the...

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1st exit polls (CNN/2:43 PM PDT)

The early pre-candidate vote exit poll results are dribbling out. (They have only teased us with this for more than 90 minutes) For what it's worth, in Mississippi today, only one breakdown given for...

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Edwards did NOT endorse anyone

Via TPM, from Greg Sargent: Edwards Didn't Endorse Anyone On Leno Tonight, NBC Flack Confirms By Greg Sargent - March 20, 2008, 9:02PM John Edwards just finished up taping his appearance on Jay Leno...

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Gallup now 49-45

Brief note - TPM reports that today's 3 day tracking indicates a narrowing of the Obama lead to 49-45%. This four point shift most likely indicates a combination of two better Clinton days Sun and Mon....

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We started Operation Chaos

Daily Kos is like my second home, and my admiration for Markos is tremendous. But he is human, and like all of us, makes mistakes. One of them was last January, when a number of posters started diaries...

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