I should come as no surprise that many Democrats pray for Sarah Palin to be the candidate in 2012, but many smart GOPers realize how much damage she could do to the brand.
That’s why we’re seeing pieces like this latest rather lengthy Vanity Fair exposé.
Read the rest over at True/Slant.

Nearly 9 months after the election, there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel for Minnesota.
From the AP:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race.
The high court rejected a legal challenge [...]

Remember that story yesterday which suggested that high level Edwards staffers knew about his affair and would sabotage the campaign if it looked like he was winning.
Well, via Twitter, former campaign manager Joe Trippi had this to say…
Complete BS — fantasyland - not true.
Here’s the thing…I want to believe Trippi, but what else would you [...]

This is the stuff I love to hear because it means that one person’s bad decisions couldn’t bring down an entire movement.
From ABC:
I’ve talked to a lot of former Edwards staffers about this. Up until December of 2007, most on Edwards’ staff didn’t believe rumors about the affair.
But by late December, early January of [...]

“It is near-extinct in many ways in the Northeast, it is extinct in many ways on the West Coast, and it is endangered in the Mountain West, increasingly endangered in the Southwest… and if you look at the state of the party, it is a shrinking entity.”
- Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt on Repubs
This [...]

And of course Coleman will appeal, but it’s looking more and more likely that we’ll be calling the former SNLer Senator Franken in the very near future.
From Star Tribune:
After a trial spanning nearly three months, Norm Coleman’s attempt to reverse Al Franken’s lead in the recount of the U.S. Senate election was soundly rejected today [...]

It just keeps going and going and going and…
However, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. The Minnesota Supreme Court dealt Coleman’s chances a pretty big blow a couple days ago when they said that only a handful of absentee ballots would be reevaluated. And this is shaping up to put [...]

I do feel bad for the guy, but with the internet providing the means for anybody to easily donate to a campaign, the game changed and McCain’s public finance laws couldn’t change with it.
From Wash Times:
“No Republican in his or her right mind is going to agree to public financing. I mean, that’s dead. That [...]

As I’ve said in the past, I am generally in favor of reforming the Electoral College system so that states allocate their voters based on what’s come to be called the District Method.
Under this method, candidates get one Electoral Vote for each Congressional District that they win in a particular state and the candidate who [...]

Politifact tracked 513 promises Obama made during the primaries, and yesterday took a look at his top 10.
Of the 10 promises, 1 has been fully kept, 1 has been kept via compromise, 5 are in the works and 3 have had no action taken on them.
I’ll have more on those last 3 later, but first [...]

The Minnesota recount saga still hasn’t ended, but Coleman is already moving on?
Hrmm…
Last session’s senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, Matt Brooks, said.
Coleman [...]

Way back when Barack Obama was just a regular rock star, only filling high school gymnasiums instead of NFL stadiums, my daughter got to cuddle with him twice.
Nothing scandalous, mind you, Dahlia was a five-month-old baby at the time. But her combined 90 seconds with the future president made her a New York Daily News [...]

Coleman is suing to challenge Franken’s lead.
The saga continues…
Republican Norm Coleman’s trial challenging DFLer Al Franken’s lead in the U.S. Senate recount will begin Jan. 26, according to an order issued this afternoon by the three-judge panel that will hear the case.
The order did not map out when specific issues would be argued, nor did [...]

Back in November, Sarah Palin unloaded on the blogosphere in one of her first post-election interviews.
And, she’s back at it again:
(CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”
The Alaska governor, who [...]

Does new evidence incriminate the Mormon Church’s involvement with Proposition 8?
This is Steven Greenstreet with American News Project.
Activists claim that money from the Mormon Church was the deciding factor in passing Proposition 8 in California - banning gay marriage. The church claims to have only spent a few thousand dollars on the campaign, but ANP [...]

However, Norm Coleman is going to the courts to add even more rejected absentee ballots. Still, to overcome a 225 votes deficit at this point seems extremely unlikely.
Here’s more from the Star Tribune…
DFLer Al Franken held an unofficial lead of 225 votes over Coleman, according to a newspaper tally of the officials’ count of the [...]

With Al Franken up just 50 votes in the Minnesota recount, congressional Republicans are worried the Democratic controlled Senate might try to seat Franken provisionally. Now, Republican Senator John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has threatened a filibuster if Democrats try to seat Franken before the Minnesota secretary of state and governor [...]

What will we say 20 years from now?

Sure, I think the year will be defined by the economic collapse and the election, but perhaps it may also be seen as the year we woke up with regards to our banking system and started to reform it in real, honest ways.
Fingers crossed.

What looked completely unlikely just a few weeks ago has turned around for the funnyman as he has won some key decisions in the past week and is now ahead by just 46 votes.
That’s right…46 votes.
From the Star Tribune:

A state Supreme Court ruling Wednesday narrowed the options available for Sen. Norm Coleman to erase a [...]