It's over. Now 7 pm in the East. Day started at 7am at the IAFF - AFL/CIO Headquarters of the Firefighters down here in Palm Beach. Phone banks set up in their exec offices allowed a rag tag rainbow coalition of campaign workers to ring up lists of registered democrats.The names were in descending order of age. I swear. It started off with a dozen or more people listed at 105 and went down to 104, 103, 102, 101, etc. I called one 93 year old who was being wheeled in his wheel chair to vote for Kerry as we spoke. Another 94 year old "didn't remember if she voted, but if she did, she voted for Kerry. Our "War Room" was staffed with a half dozen people - mostly from the holistic healing world. One guy was an acupuncturist, another was a "upper body therapist", there was even a new age nurse.

More later.....

FiveThirtyEight: A recent poll shows that most people don't know what the "public option" is - including pollsters

Empire Burlesque: Bait and Switch: Using diversity to disguise inequality

Lean Left: Shorter David Brooks: We need to slow down the liberals so more people can die in misery

pourmecoffee: Fightin' words

Democracy Now!: As Obama golfs with UBS CEO days after the firm avoids criminal prosecution, UBS whistleblower is given a 40 month jail term

marmel: Utah says it's okay to fire someone for being gay. Time to boycott Sundance

Connecting.the.Dots: V.P. for saving the planet

Facing South: Gulf Stream Coach - the politically connected company handed a $500 million federal contract to manufacture trailers for Hurricane Katrina victims knew its product was contaminated with dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde in early 2006. But they failed to notify residents or take any action to protect them.

Petrelis Files: AIDS exec gets a pay raise, then cuts food and supplements to patients.

Shakesville: Onward HMO soldiers, marching as to war

Newshoggers: If the only tool one uses is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The "gas tax holiday" and objective journalism...Crude Reporting..Obama moves right, pundits cheer...Har Har Har...Maybe someday, Maureen Dowd won't write something juvenile enough to make Annals...Zzzzzzzz: get ready for CNN's exciting convention coverage...Can we stop with the "liberal media" trope now?...Bypassing the Corporate Media...Jane Mayer shines some light on The Dark Side...Tom "six months" Friedman is angry because the world hates us...Shut up!...Judy Miller in a tent...

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Kos has the scoop:

Remember the guy who did Spitzer's incredible ads? They're by Jimmy Siegel, a Madison Avenue ad exec looked down upon by political media consultants because he's not part of their crappy club. But he's good. Really good.

Well, he's apparently doing the media for Harold Icke's new 527, the September Fund. And their first ad is good. Really, really good. Phenomenal, in fact. Media consultants need to start sweating. Because they are being proven the rank amateurs that they are compared to real media professionals

Mike's Blog Round Up

Neil Bush travels with Rev. Moon as "peace leader"

Mount Blogmore: Looking for a way out Here comes.....FoxNews' John Gibson and the problem with Faith

Vague Nihilism: Letting the Air Out of Lou Dobbs

The Democratic Daily Blog: EPA in Denial

Petrelis Files : Diebold Exec Ignores Ban on Political Donations