In the final few days of the Obama campaign, I tried something I’ve always wanted to do. I went around to people who had seen things from the inside, stuck my tape recorder in their faces, and asked them to recount for me some of the moments they remember most–the kind of war stories they [...]

Following up on Joe’s post, here’s a story I did for time.com on the choices and pressures Reid and Lieberman are facing. Seems we’ll know something in two weeks’ time.

Noted election expert Curtis Gans of American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate finds: Despite lofty predictions by some academics, pundits, and practitioners that voter turnout would reach levels not seen since the turn of the last century, the percentage of eligible citizens casting ballots in the 2008 presidential election stayed at [...]

I’m not a big fan of post-election vindictiveness. If McCain had won I’d be giving him the benefit of the doubt now, even though I thought he ran a reprehensible campaign. Presidential honeymoons, within reason, are good for the spirit of democracy. And so I’m inclined not too be too hard on Joe Lieberman, even [...]

Am told by a Dem operative working on the Georgia congressional race recount that the GOP is so serious about trying to preserve Chambliss’s seat they’re bringing in Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. Because that worked out so well last time.

Apparently, Rahm has accepted the chief-of-staff job, no really this time – at least we think. Robert Gibbs will be Obama’s press secretary. And Fortune.com reports that Larry Summers is in the lead for Treasury Secretary. Tomorrow Obama will meet with his economic advisors and hold his first press conference as president-elect, where we think he’ll [...]

Ok. I don’t want to have too much fun at the expense of the neocons licking their wounds and behaving with characteristic obtuseness small-minded churlishness over at Commentary. Let Matt Duss do that. But I do feel much safer now that there is no chance that the neoconservatives will have a say in U.S. national security and [...]

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri announced today he’s stepping down, which opens the door for his top deputy, Eric Cantor, a young up-and-comer from Virginia, to move up. The move likely saves John Boehner’s hide as Blunt’s blood probably satisfies those looking for a sacrificial lamb in the wake of a second horrendous [...]

It’s nice to know everyone on the right is keeping things classy. Jason Linkins has a breakdown. I mean, the kind where he breaks things down. Not that kind they’re having.