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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 12 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project.  Between now and election day I'll try to post a diary every couple of days (and probably daily in the week...

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Test: Election Night Live Blog Graphs

Graphs. Lots and Lots of graphs... And yes, these should update with new numbers approximately every 5 minutes on election night.

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 10 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project.  Between now and election day I'll try to post a diary every couple of days (and probably daily in the week...

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Election Night Live Blog How-To

This is my how-to guide for people who are going to be doing Live Blogs of races on election night as part of my Election Day Results Live Blogging Project.

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 8 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 30 races left to be taken, so new volunteers will be greatly appreciated! (what a difference...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 7 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 13 races left to be taken, so new volunteers will be greatly appreciated! To see the past diaries,...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 6 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 10 races left to be taken, so new volunteers will be greatly appreciated! To see the past diaries,...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 5 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 8 races left to be taken, so new volunteers will be greatly appreciated! To see the past diaries,...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 4 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 3 races left to be taken, so new volunteers will be greatly appreciated! To see the past diaries,...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging: Call for Volunteers - 3 days to go

This is a call for volunteers for the Great 2008 Election Results Live Blogging Project. We still have 1 race left to be taken, so we're almost there.  If you want to take any races which I don't have...

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Election Day Results Live Blogging - Diary Setup and Tech Support

Anyone who volunteered to live blog, please look over this diary This will be the final Election Day Results Live Blog diary before the big day tomorrow. This diary is here for two reasons: To talk...

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Election Night Live Blog Tech Help

This is a tech help diary for the Election Night Live Blogs.  If you're running a live blog and need technical assistance, please post here.

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So, we make the GOP filibuster...and then what?

Many people on here apparently still believe in the magic vote fairy in the Senate even after we got a large majority. The vast majority of comments and diaries on this site (and even some, if not...

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Things I've Learned on Daily Kos over the Past Week

Here is a list of things I've learned on Daily Kos over the past week: The Obama Presidency is already a failure, so we should just already plan on President Huckabee Palin in 2012. If faced with the...

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Bredesen and TennCare

I don't particularly care for Bredesen as secretary of Health and Human Services - mainly because I'm sure there are, overall, better qualified candidates, and it would make State Senator Ron Ramsey -...

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New Fox News 100 Days Poll: Some Pretty Good News

It's always interesting to see what some on the other side who do polling end up as their results, so I thought I'd take a look at the latest polling results from Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/......

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Gingrich: The Civil War means nothing if Sotomayor is Confirmed

Yes, he really said that in an email he blasted out: Gingrich warns that all of American civilization is at stake here. "If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything, we cannot accept...

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Andrew Breitbart Goes Insane

Ok, we already knew that Breitbart was insane, but his article in on the Washington Time's website (I don't know whether it was in the printed version or not) removes any possible doubt or pretense...

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VA-Gov Primary Results Liveblog

Associated Press has called the race for Deeds OK, I don't know how much there is to liveblog here other than results, but I thought I'd put this up anyway.   There are two statewide races being run:...

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@ChuckGrassley's Twitter Tips

I know that Chuck Grassley has gotten quite abit of ridicule for some of his recent tweets on twitter. However, I think we should take some of his tips seriously.  The GOP is going to use twitter as...

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Crisis In Iran Liveblog Child Diary #2

I'm posting this early just in case.  In the meantime, visit the first Liveblog Child diary here. DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS CHILD DIARY. RECOMMEND THE MOTHERSHIP INSTEAD. Go to the Mothership for links and...

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Freepers' Heads Explode Over Franken

It's always fun to venture over to sites like Free Republic whenever shit blows up in the GOP's face just to see their reactions of despair and insanity, if for no other reason than to see then react...

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Landrieu, Ben Nelson tell Reid 'neener neener' on Cloture

I guess it's not a huge shock, but the two biggest conservadems in the Senate aren't all that happy with Reid telling them that they're expected to vote for cloture on all Democratic bills, whether...

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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Liveblog Mothership (Day 1)

This is the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Liveblog Mothership.  Please recommend only this diary and not any of the child diaries. Please limit comments in this diary, and NO pictures. We need to...

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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Liveblog Mothership (Day 2)

This is the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Liveblog Mothership.  Please recommend only this diary and not any of the child diaries. Please limit comments in this diary, and NO pictures. We need to...

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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Liveblog Mothership (Day 3)

This is the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Liveblog Mothership.  Please recommend only this diary and not any of the child diaries. Please limit comments in this diary, and NO pictures. We need to...

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[LIVEBLOG] Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Day 4, Child 6

DO NOT recommend this diary PLEASE RECOMMEND the MOTHERSHIP diary located here. If you would like to donate your daily diary to this liveblog, please post a reply to this comment in the MOTHERSHIP...

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Speaker Pelosie should work with the GOP on health care!

This is the demand from Senator Grassley.  Yes, he misspelled Nancy Pelosi's name on Twitter just now: Speaker Pelosie,with all due respect if you are restructuring 17pc of our economy thru...

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New Explosive Video about the Birthers!

NOT BREAKING!: I have uncovered explosive new evidence about the birthers, and their response to the new fake Kenya "birth certificate!" This is an amazing video about the true leader of the birthers...

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Obama Town Hall Live Blog

It's almost time for the Obama Town Hall in New Hampshire. The setup has several dozen people standing behind the podium. You can watch the town hall here at 1:00 PM: MSNBC:...

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VA-Gov Misery Thread

It's time for the Virginia governor's race misery thread, where you can talk about why McDonnell won (or why Deeds lost), crunch on any exit poll numbers we get, and tremble in fear as we discuss what...

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Last Night's Big Lesson, Rethought

I think Kos makes a few good points on the lessons for the results last night in his front page post in the wee hours of the morning (at least on the east coast), and his thoughts certainly shouldn't...

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Bayh and the Filibuster

One of the major complaints about Bayh made in the comments - and even on the front page - is that Bayh was somehow misusing the filibuster or voting against cloture to thwart the progress of Democrats...

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Durbin, Pelosi, and the Public Option

As people have seen in the front page, there are two apparently conflicting reports coming out of the two chambers today. First, Pelosi has announced that the Public Option is dead: "We had it; we...

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One New Regulation I'd Love to See: Eliminate Drug Ads

I think most people who know me here see me of a kind of moderate on here (my political compass is - 3.62 economic, - 4.05 social), and I'm one who usually errs on the side of not regulating unless...

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Healthcare Reform Debate Liveblog - Shuttlepod #11

Here is the next shuttlepod for the liveblog of the HCR debate. Please do NOT rec this diary; please rec the Mothership by Adam Blomeke.

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Senate Reconciliation Liveblog Shuttlepod #3 - The Vote-a-rama Begins!

Debate is now finished, the Senate is starting a projected 9 straight hours of voting on GOP Amendments into the night. I'll try to chronicle the votes in the diary as long as this is the current...

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Senate (and House!) Reconciliation Day 3 Liveblog Mothership

Please REC this diary and not the Shuttlepod diaries. Please go to these diaries to comment: #1: sgary #2: sheba #3: quixoto For past Liveblog Motherships, See: House Debate Mothership by Adam Blomeke...

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McCain Made President After Obama, Millions of Others, deemed to be...

In a stunning ruling by the US Supreme Court in the case of Taitz vs. Obama, the court, divided on a 5-4 decision, has ruled that President Obama is actually an "Imaginary-American" and thus is...

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OKCupid: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex

Just for the record, I'm straight, but I still found these numbers to be interesting, and knocking down a lot of sterotypes about gays. The OKTrends blog is a website that OKCupid uses to post...

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Important Questions

I think now that what will ultimately happen on election night is winding down, there are a few questions that are going to be asked and answered over the coming weeks and months: Who will be the...

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An Updated Agenda and A Look at Exits (Warning: VERY LONG)

Before getting into the "updated agenda" part of this diary, I wanted to (maybe not so) quickly go through the exit polling and my interpretation of it. Yes, the American People really are concerned...

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PPP: Birthers Take Over the GOP

This diary is crossposted at by blog Mad Wombat According to a new PPP poll released today, birthers now make up a majority of likely GOP voters in 2012. According to the poll, 51% say they believe...

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Virginia Effectively Closes 80% of Abortion Clinics

Lt. Governor Bill Bolling cast a tie-breaking vote in the State Senate to send a abortion regulation bill to Governor McDonnell, who says he will sign it. So what does the bill do?  Virginia already...

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Breitbart Image Analysis DOES NOT show evidence of Fraud re: Rep. Weiner

There have been a couple high profile diaries on this matter here and here, both of which feature an image analysis supposedly demonstrating that the screenshot of the photo on Rep. Weiner's yfrog...

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Lessons to Learn

I know this is hardly the first diary on this, but being one of the ones who had been in a lot of discussions in a lot of the original "techie" diaries in the opening weekend, I thought I would chime...

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14th Amendment is not the answer to the debt ceiling crisis

There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility of Obama using the 14th Amendment to somehow declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional. I believe this is an incorrect reading of the 14th...

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McConnell's Debt Ceiling Proposal, Pros AND Cons

Even though there are already three front page posts about this topic, I thought I would post a copy of a post I made on the McConnell deal that I made on Blue Wave News, partly because I don't think...

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Just what is Cut, Cap, and Balance?

This will has been crossposted on Blue Wave News. H.R. 2560 - The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011. That is what most of the discussion in Washington is going to be about today. So what, exactly,...

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Boehner to Caucus: Way Forward is forcing Obama to sign GOP bill

It looks like Boehner has finally thrown down the gauntlet, and it's for giving Obama an ultimatum: it's either the GOP bill or default.  At least that's the reports from Boehner's GOP caucus...

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