who made the worst choices -- their candidate, his VP choice or his own campaign staff.

I guess he'll do a mix of somber speech, family stuff, and some specifics.

So, no, not masterful at a ll, but a campaign that came along at the right time and thus has succeeded due to karma, cause and effect.

He came along at the right time.

yes, he'll try and get us out of iraq as soon as is practicable. yes, i think he'll close down guantanamo, relocate all the prisoner's to either domestic military or civilian jails, and move their proceedings to civilian courts.

those aren't "progressive" actions, just common sense.

when he works to get rid of the patriot act and re-write FISA, then we can talk. until that happens, he's a progressive like i'm a heart surgeon.

But I may be taking part in an election day project to monitor a nationwide data base of voting problems as they occur, and then report in real time to some legal team or other in New York on the trends. Then they will send people out immediately to investigate the situation at those precincts and hopefully, resolve the problems before the polls close.

Yes, it sounds a little confusing to me but I'm supposed to get two sessions of training before Tuesday.

It will be a night of nail-biting here in WA. Our governor's race is (once again) too close for comfort, the 8th district House race between Dave Reichert and Darcy Burner is too close to call, and we have a state legislative district race between two Democrats (who emerged from our new "top two" primary) that has been fairly nasty.

These past two months, I've started to come around, slowly.  I've paid relatively little attention to the campaigns and avoided the idiotic talking heads.  I've been more interested in the issues, particularly the economy, the real life problems of Americans, and the financial crisis.  I have some Wall St. background so I've been reading and watching the Congressional hearings.  I've also been spending some time (should do more) watching what Bush/Cheney et al are doing.

I've spent more time on personal and home issues.  I've avoided fanatical supporters almost entirely.  And I've slowly come around to a position I'm comfortable with, and am starting to feel like a part of the Obama community (at the very edges) and still a Democrat, but one who is still interested in trying to build a strong third party, and one who plans to do everything I can to demand investigations and accountability come 2009.

Letterman was real good with the McCain snub but man, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

On the oter hand, Dave's show with Craig Ferguson is getting real good.

And so, my fellow Democrats, and you "Progressives" too, try to at least hold it in until after the election.  And, you know, after the election, please attempt, somehow, to not gripe about the new President's inability to create single payor healthcare overnight or resolve our energy dependency issues toot sweet or place the US on the side of the better angels.

Lastly, she is wearing a white pin in the shape of a polar bear.  What?

Perhaps she is just tired, or not feeling well.  Maybe something happened personally to cause stress.  Or maybe she has just had it with all of this mess.  I think she has election fatigue, for sure.  I often wonder if she regrets ever getting involved in this whole thing.  I can't decide whether I think she regrets it or not.

It's interesting, because even as she seems shaky, she seems more credible on the topic and doesn't appear to be reading a teleprompter (she probably is, but it doesn't appear that way).

Whatever else we think and/or say about Palin, she definitely is an interesting study.  

The second was about a month ago as Obama began to settle in with a nifty lead and as the economy, already shaky for a long time, began to seriously tank in the financial markets.  McCain was never going to win against a solid Dem (O or HRC) in this major change year, and he hurt himself even more by running a stupid, erratic and Hooveresque campaign.  In an honest electoral system, which we don't have of course, I would have confidently called this one for the Dem weeks ago.