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...
View ArticleTest: 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.
View ArticleElection 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...
View ArticleElection 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.
View ArticleElection 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...
View ArticleElection 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,...
View ArticleElection 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,...
View ArticleElection 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,...
View ArticleElection 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,...
View ArticleElection 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...
View ArticleElection 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...
View ArticleElection 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.
View ArticleSo, 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...
View ArticleThings 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...
View ArticleBredesen 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 -...
View ArticleNew 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/......
View ArticleGingrich: 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...
View ArticleAndrew 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...
View ArticleVA-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:...
View Article@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...
View ArticleCrisis 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...
View ArticleFreepers' 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...
View ArticleLandrieu, 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View ArticleSotomayor 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...
View Article[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...
View ArticleSpeaker 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleObama 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:...
View ArticleVA-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...
View ArticleLast 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...
View ArticleBayh 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...
View ArticleDurbin, 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleHealthcare 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.
View ArticleSenate 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...
View ArticleSenate (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...
View ArticleMcCain 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...
View ArticleOKCupid: 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...
View ArticleImportant 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticlePPP: 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...
View ArticleVirginia 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...
View ArticleBreitbart 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...
View ArticleLessons 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...
View Article14th 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...
View ArticleMcConnell'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...
View ArticleJust 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,...
View ArticleBoehner 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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