California voting is open until 8pm pacific time. You absolutely must go vote right now if you have not. The exit polling for Proposition 8 is very, very tight.

We were way down in the polls and I was busy leaving messages on answering machines when a young volunteer came bounding into my rabbit warren and announced breathlessly, "Paul Newman is on the line." A little skeptical, I shot back that I was on the line with Vladimir Putin so hold all calls, but our savvy volunteer suggested that this was a call worth taking.

Ned Lamont visited the Big Tent today. He's kinda like Mick Jagger for bloggers. With the serious possibility that Joe Lieberman will be McCain's VP choice, it was great to see Ned and celebrate the fact that together,  two years ago, we kicked Joe out of the Democratic party.

We'll have video up tomorrow. But everyone else is just catching up to what we knew two years ago.  

We were f*&#ing right.

John McCain's "final countdown" actually gets a journalist to notice who the presumptuous one may actually be.

Live interview with newly elected Representative Donna Edwards of Maryland's fourth Congressional district.

Some of you may remember how Tim Walz, a schoolteacher from rural Minnesota, pulled off the Mother of All Upsets back in 2006 when he defeated longtime Congressman Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota's historically hyper-Republican First District. Well, the Republicans are spoiling for a fight, but somehow I suspect Tim's not too worried.

From the DOD document dump Rummy & the Washington Generals finding that the cure for a Democratic Congress is "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb U.S."

...you might want to send Stephen Colbert an apology. And a few dozen roses. Far from hurting the careers of the Democrats who go on his show, a new study has found that donations to Democratic lawmakers appearing in his "Better Know A District" segment spike upwards rather dramatically.

The conventional wisdom in Rhode Island says if Senator Lincoln Chafee (or just “Linc” here in Little Rhody) had run for re-election in any year other than 2006 he would have easily won. But it was 2006 and in a national wave Chafee lost to a Democratic challenger flipping the Senate back to the control of the Democratic Party.

Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood, just got up on stage and really got the audience going talking about how dangerous it was that another supreme court judge might be appointed who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, and how progressive needed to get active in electoral politics to preserve a woman's right too choose. Huzzah.