Well, America, there is a god. Not that I’m partisan or anything, but those midterm elections sure felt good, eh? Three words: Sayonara Senator Macacawitz. Holla.
But let’s not just gloat. We should also learn a little about how this blessed event came to pass, methinks. For the unabashedly liberal like myself (“bleed-ing heart” has always rubbed me the wrong way), the place to go for the postgame debriefing (and all political analysis in between elections) is Daily Kos, the top politics blog on the Web, according to Technorati. Started in 2002 by Markos (hence “Daily Kos”) Moulitsas Zúniga, a former U.S. Army artillery specialist raised in El Salvador, the site now gets 20 million unique page views per month from politics junkies looking for their fix.
Posts in the past 48 hours (my current position in relation to election night) are surprisingly light. The excuse? Daily Kos’ bloggers have been busy partying and are taking some well-deserved time off to nurse postelection hangovers. Analysis (probably self-congratulatory, I’ll admit) is sure to pop up in the coming days, but at press time, the pickings were slim.
Normally, however, the posts pop up fast and furious on topics from the bloggers’ election predictions to Michael J. Fox and his tireless campaigning in favor of stem cell research to, yes, George Allen’s many exhibitions of prickdom.
Also of note for political nerds in training and political nerds with some gaps in their book learnin’ is the “dKosopedia,” the site’s political ency-clopedia awesomely modeled on Wikipedia. Confused by a government acronym or by a key point Howard Dean made during a speech in South Carolina in December 2003? Not to worry: Daily Kos is at your service.