The recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken has ended and Norm Coleman still holds on to a razor thin lead, but it’s not over yet: Like the election itself, the Senate recount has ended — except that it hasn’t. At 11:29 a.m. Friday at the Wright County Government Center in [...]

Obama’s golden wordsmith, Jon Favreau, is the guy on the left, and while this is certainly a big nothingburger, he has still had to apologize for it. From Wash Post: Asked about the photos, Favreau, who was recently appointed director of speechwriting for the White House, declined comment. A transition official said that Favreau had [...]

…and why they’ll continue to lose if they continue to push the same tired, bogus memes like “media bias” instead of taking responsibility for their shoddy policies and hyperpartisan, win-at-all-costs behavior. Succinctly described here by John Cole… The Republicans did not lose because of media bias. Dan Rather wasn’t in New Orleans knocking water bottles [...]

The Democrat’s dream of a supermajority is dead, at least until 2010. Also, Saxby Chambliss has the world’s biggest left hand. From CNN: Chambliss, a freshman Republican senator, was projected to win more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s rematch against Democrat Jim Martin. The election is playing off the results of November [...]

It seems fairly clear that turnout for today’s Senate runoff in Georgia will be nowhere near the levels reached on November 4th: ATLANTA — Georgia voters encountered short lines but heavy campaigning Tuesday on the morning of the state’s runoff election for the Senate between the incumbent Republican, Saxby Chambliss, and Democratic challenger Jim Martin. [...]

Looks like he added over $100M to his fundraising total in October alone, and between raising money for the DNC, his transition and the inauguration, Politico speculates that Obama is set to become Politico runs the numbers…what say you? The vast majority of the donations were generated during the unusually long primary and general election [...]

Conservative columnist Rod Dreher, has an interesting column in today’s USA Today, where he defends the role of religious conservatives in the Republican Party. What’s interesting about the piece is how yet again, a religious conservative paints themselves as the victim and bashes anyone that complains about them as being a stooge of liberals. But [...]

I posted about this around the time we heard whispers about Hillary becoming Secretary of State, but I can’t help but post it again… Is it me, or was this one of those moments during the campaign where the mood and momentum started to shift in Obama’s favor? Because right after this Obama won Iowa [...]

Two CBS reporters, one who covered Obama and one who covered McCain, talk about it… I do think one of the biggest reasons McCain started seeing more negative coverage in the last half of the campaign is he went negative and cut off press access, so the press were left to report on nothing but [...]

In fact, it’s the widest margin ever for any non-incumbent who has won the POTUS. Check out these numbers… So maybe it really was a landslide? Still, as Nate Silver points, if you slice this onion a different way and look at the votes as a % of the total registered voters, Reagan comes out [...]

I just posted about this a few minutes ago, and then this update pops up… Minnesota’s Canvassing Board voted unanimously to reject Franken’s request to include thousands of absentee ballots that are not included in the recount in the Minnesota senate race between the Democratic challenger and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The Canvassing Board, which [...]

The plot thickens… The state’s five member Canvassing Board, which oversees the recount, is meeting to decide how to deal with thousands of absentee ballots that are not included in the recount. Franken’s campaign says the ballots were wrongly rejected, and that about 6,400 ballots were wrongly disqualified. Coleman’s team says the board doesn’t have [...]

A few weeks ago, I got an invite to join a group on Facebook called Progressive Republicans. The group was described as “…Republicans interested in social justice, civil rights and a clean environment as well as a small government and strong national defense.” I was curious about it and the person behind the group. A [...]

Sarah Palin is headed to Georgia to campaign for Saxby Chambliss: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will make multiple campaign appearances on behalf of Sen. Saxby Chambliss next week in Georgia, serving as the political closer for the GOP senator who is battling to win a second term. This is Palin’s [...]

With more than 3/4ths of the precincts counted, it looks like Franken will fall short, barring some wild turn around in how these votes are shaking out. Still, FiveThirtyEight thinks there’s a chance… The Star Tribune now puts Coleman’s lead at 180 votes, and the Secretary of State, 167 votes. (The Star Tribune’s tally appears [...]

Dan Gilgoff at Politico writes that very little has changed in the evangelical political world: Evangelicals are still much more concerned with so-called wedge issues than any other demographic group. A Barna Group poll found that 40 percent of evangelicals chose their presidential candidate based on his position on “moral issues,” compared with 9 percent [...]

If you had any doubts that the internet has created a new public financing system, this story should put those to rest. From Wash Post: In an exclusive interview with The Post, members of the vaunted Triple O, Obama’s online operation, broke down the numbers: 3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations [...]

Will Obama be able to pass a bold, new agenda to save the economy after Bush’s last 100 days? David Gregory and company discuss… If he can bring people together and convince them that his agenda represents the best way, then yes he can. But it’s going to be tough as Republicans try to save [...]

I’m following the Minnesota recount pretty closely because we could potentially have the makings of a super majority on our hands if Franken wins the recount and Jim Martin is able to beat Saxby Chambliss in Georgia. In any event, after the first day Franken had cut Coleman’s lead from 215 to 172. And today [...]

The Hardball panel dissects the weirdness going on up in Minnesota. Long story short, whoever wins has the best lawyers…much like Florida in 2000.