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    Wait wait! Don’t Tell Me: The Obama Years

    This is my revamped desk setup: the keyboard is a flatter Dell one that fits in the slideout tray under the top. The Microsoft Natural one is too high to fit unless bad things happen to the underhang with a power tool. Note “Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me!” pledge swag mug to the right. Oh boy! the WWDTM folks are in Boston, and their guest is Barney Franks. He got a huge welcome from his socialist-partisan fans. Aw, he’s telling a cute story about his boyfriend, Jimmy. And how it somehow relates to Bush, Palin, and Franks’ Secret Service nickname,…

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    Presidential Seals

    Over at Daily Kos: State of the Nation they’re having some fun with Presidential Seal imagery. And that’s how I’m hoping things turn out. It’s looking good for at the moment. We’re over at Jill’s house getting ready to watch Colbert and Stewart, the best political analysts American society has yet produced.

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    Tonight: The Race Is O’er

    Tonight we’re not heading to Grant Park with the throngs, we’re headed to Oak Park with thongs. Okay, it’s an unseasonably warm, clear day, and we’re taking O-themed, or Hawaiian themed, snacks to Jill’s house. She’ll have Jon Stewart on downstairs and the radio on upstairs and we’ll feast on pot roast and nail trimmings until the results are in. Dear God, I hope the results are in. I’m taking my laptop and may checkin with my Second Life chums (who’ve been neglected of late), but I’ll also be watching races at the election tracker CNN.com has. You can set…

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    Dixville Notch has spoken: It’s Obama in a landslide – CNN.com

    Here we go: the first of many towns, villages, municipalities, and counties heard from. Dixville Notch has spoken: It’s Obama in a landslide – CNN.com DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. [The town] is the first in the nation to vote in the primaries and Election Day. People in the isolated village in New Hampshire’s northeast corner voted just after midnight Tuesday. It was the first time since 1968 that the village…

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    Stevens Juror: She Was Off Playin’ The Ponies (Audio)

    McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/03/2008 | Stevens juror left for horse race, not her father’s funeral WASHINGTON — Juror No. 4 in Sen. Ted Stevens’ federal corruption trial, otherwise known as Marian Hinnant, didn’t leave the trial to attend her father’s funeral in California, as she told the judge at the time. Instead, Hinnant had a plane ticket to see the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita Park near Los Angeles and didn’t want to miss it, she told the judge Monday. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered her to court to find out why she’d left town and lost…

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    Condolences to the Families

    The narrative of this election moves me to tears sometimes, sometimes to open sobbing. No, I’m trying not to give in to the angstyness that’s sweeping the Democratic blogosphere. Now and then I just get blubby, because there’ve been a lot of really emotional highs and lows. A lot of news stories that make my moods swing constantly, like a weather vane pointing first east, then west. There’s no story more moving than the news that Madelyn Dunham, Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, has died. It seems like it was bad enough when Studs Terkel passed, but I had really hoped…

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    Obama’s Aunt: Last minute smear by whom?

    Earlier today/late last night, the news broke that Obama’s Kenyan aunt is living in this country illegally, having overstayed her visa after her request for asylum was denied. Talking Points Memo ruminates on the timing (suspiciously close to the election) and the source (suspiciously originating on a Rupert Murdoch-owned publication, then getting echo-chambered). TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | The Anatomy of a Smear On the record, of course, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, is telling reporters it can’t comment on any individual person’s immigration status. It would appear to be a…

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    Daily Kos: Palin Pranked AAAAAH!!!! SO FULL OF WIN

    Daily Kos: Palin Pranked Listen to the hilarious call here. EPIC FAIL. Grandpa McCain isn’t going to be happy about this one. Their website must be getting slammed because it isn’t loading for some. Here is the YouTube [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QbEwKcs-7Hc" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] (h/t NegSpin): Oh my God!! This is indeed EPIC… at first Palin is falling all over herself thanking him for taking a few minutes to call her, and he drops names of well-known Canadian entertainers, catching her out on not knowing the names of the real French and Canadian dignitaries they “replaced.” Throughout the conversation, Audette…