As The Dead sang: "What a long, strange trip it's BEEN!"
But it all comes down to TOMORROW.
Will Maine show herself to be a state that is fair?
Will Maine 'put a ring on it'?
Here is what FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver thinks...
More below the fold.
Among the attendees were some bloggers we all know: Jeremy Hooper, Adam Bink and Julia Rosen!
Here's some of my favorite clips from today's rally:
'No On 1's Sam Parker, introduced by Jesse Connolly:
Steve and Jim, who have been a couple for 34 years:
Darlene Huntress, explaining how we got here today:
1-MORE-DAY, folks...
Just got this:
The "Drive for Equality" hotel in South Portland still has space available, and the staging locations still need volunteers.(A) We are providing FREE HOTEL ROOM SPACE for anyone from out-of-state who can make a spur-of-the-moment decision to drive up here, and volunteer. We have actually managed to recruit a few people at the last minute, and I know we can do more if the word gets out.
(B) The hotel is in South Portland. We have a block of rooms for tonight and tomorrow night, so people can stay until Wednesday.
(C) We're down by 4 points in the last poll -- this election is coming down to the last day-and-a-half. We could very well lose, simply because we don't have enough troops on the ground. New Hamsphire and Boston folks can easily get here -- and we will put them up if need be.
(C) People who sign up at the website will get a call back within 15 minutes.
(D) Our phone number -- someone will always answer it -- is 415-935-4552.
Yes, the woman who represents the 5th District (Winston-Salem, Mt. Airy) in my state is completely batsh*t insane. You might recall that Foxx is the windbag who declared the hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard was a hoax. Now she's back comparing an attempt at fixing our broken health care system as worse that terrorists? I though homosexuality was a greater threat than terrorism (oh, wait, that's S>Sally Kern). If you want to send a message about real reform, today is the Alan Grayson money bomb.Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. ... I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room - this very room - and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.
UPDATE: The DNC's response:
Meet Virginia Foxx: The Extreme is Now Mainstream Inside the GOP"If you haven't met Virginia Foxx, an extreme right wing Republican House Member from North Carolina you should because she, Glenn Beck, Sarah Plain and Michele Bachmann are the new and most powerful faces of the GOP," said DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse.
"Virginia Foxx's unbelievable assertion that Americans have more to fear from health care reform than from "any terrorist in any country" is just the natural extension of Sarah Palin's 'death panels' charge or other GOP luminaries who said reform would 'pull the plug on grandma.' It is outrageous that anyone would compare the action of terrorists to efforts to help American families get secure, stable and affordable health insurance. Sadly, these inexplicable comments represent what is now the mainstream of a Republican Party that has been hijacked by an extremist far right-wing faction that craves ideological purity, will purge dissent, and offer nothing but reactionary opposition to progress. So long as Virginia Foxx, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin hold the keys to the GOP it will continue to be well outside the mainstream and a severely marginalized minority party well into the future."
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