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Happy Thursday! We're nearly there!

Holy bloggers Batman! The Slattery's are live blogging at FM Right NOW!

What in the name of Christmas Eve is Phill Kline thinking... one blogger asks.

Prime asks: Let's Go KC hears good news at the Missouri Joint Transportation Funding Summit in Jefferson City where extending public transit was the major issue being discussed.

14 Republican Congressmen are refusing to endorse McCain.

Chuck Schumer sees as many as 11 Senate seats going to the Democrats this cycle. I'm not sure I believe it, but hey - go gurl.


Obama launches http://www.fightthesmears.com. Good for the campaign. This is like the Hillary Clinton Fact Hub - v.v.v good way to stop bad messages where they start.


Um... yeah... Applebeas doesn't have a salad bar... duah!

In a surprisingly turn of events - Wisconsin has now gone blue. I'm sure there is a blue cheese joke to be made somewhere...

In the inaugural UW Dept. of Political Science/WisPolitics.com survey taken immediately after Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign, Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 13-percentage point margin in the Badger state. The survey of 506 randomly selected probable voters was conducted by phone from June 8- June 10 under the direction of Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein from the University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science... It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Some legal scholars would like to see America’s free speech protections made a little less free. [New York Times]

Here’s a four-page Atlantic article about how the Web has ruined the brains of book readers and writers and now we can only deal with single-sentence blog posts. [You Won't Ever Make It Past The First Page]



MO Common Sense believes Missourians are well positioned to deal with climate change if they're willing to be considerate of each other. As such, it is on this day that I encourage you to be excellent to each other!