Big Tent Democrat's last election results thread is overflowing, I closed the comments.

Here's a new thread for tonight's elections and your analysis and thoughts about it and what comes next.

Congratulations to Josh Marshall and the bevy of reporters at Talking Points Memo. They crossed a new threshold today by winning a Polk Journalism award for their coverage of the U.S. Attorney firing scandal.

Attytood explains why it's so significant for bloggers and how it happened.

Here are the winners.

By Big Tent Democrat

While debates over Paul Lukasiak's argument continue to rage, you will not see a post from me on this non-issue. This to me is as silly as the "who stole what from whose position papers" nonsense.

You are welcome to disagree in this non-issue Open Thread. Or debate real issues as you please.

The floor is yours.

By Big Tent Democrat

The floor is yours. Go Gators!

This is an Open Thread.

By Big Tent Democrat

When an A-List progressive blogger can write that Chris Matthews is right in his sexism and misogyny, via digby, then something is rotten in the Denmark that is the progressive blogs.

Jamison Foser explains why:

Matthews lashed out at the Clinton campaign, saying that Clinton should "get rid of the kneecappers that work for her," referring to her communications staff who go "after the press." Matthews added, "The kneecapping hasn't worked. Her press relations are lousy. ... If all you do is intimidate and punish and claim you'll get even relentlessly, people of all kinds of politicians -- and in all fairness, the press -- human reaction to intimidation is screw you."

For the record, Matthews' overt hostility toward Hillary Clinton cannot honestly be described as a reaction to how her presidential campaign has treated the press: More than six years ago, Matthews said of Clinton, "I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for." More to the point, Matthews' apparent blaming of the Clinton campaign for his own sexism is the clearest indication yet that he doesn't "get it" and that MSNBC doesn't care that he doesn't get it.

(Emphasis supplied.) And a lot of A-List male bloggers do not get it. Do not hold your breath waiting for any of them to comment on this . We have a malign acceptance of sexism, and it extends well beyond the Media.

TalkLeft is now part of Newsweek's blog coverage, with all of our election posts appearing simultaneously as we post them here on Newsweek's group blog page, The Ruckus. Here is their press release announcing it.

Newsweek and the Media Bloggers Association (MBA) have invited three new blogs to join 'The Ruckus,' a group blog about politics published by Newsweek.com. Joining 'The Ruckus' are Brian Leubitz of Calitics, Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft and David Oatney of The World According to Oatney.

"The newest contributors to 'The Ruckus' represent key states in the 2008 presidential race -- California, Colorado and Tennessee," said Deidre Depke, editor of Newsweek.com. "As the campaign progresses, we'll periodically introduce new blogs to reflect the changing political landscape."

Big Tent Democrat's election posts are included as well -- his posts appear with his byline to differentiate them from mine. [More...]

By Big Tent Democrat

Open Thread. Please note that all comments violative of our comments policy will be deleted.

For whatever topic you wish to discuss. This is an Open Thread.

By Big Tent Democrat

What do you think of Roger Clemens? Sorry, I got nuthin.

This is an Open Thread. Remember the comments rules. I am just deleting now for all nonconforming comments that I see.

I've got a lot of work to do today, so here's an open thread for you. All topics welcome, but remember the commenting rules and keep it clean and civil. And urls must be in html format or they skew the site requiring the deletion of your comment. Thanks.

Hillary Clinton won several counties in Virginia, some by very large margine. What do they all have in common? They are almost exclusively populated by whites. Virginia's population state- wide is 73% white and 20% African-American.

Here are the demographics for the first half-dozen or so counties she won (all I've checked so far):

• Allegany: 93% white, 5.5% AA
• Bedford: 92% white, 6.3% AA
• Bland: 95% white, 4.4% AA
• Buchanan: 96% white, 3.2% AA
• Carroll: 98.5% white, 0.7%AA
• Dickenson: 98.7% white, 0.6%AA
• Grayson: 96.7% white, 2.4% AA

This is a continuation of the Virginia/MD/DC results thread. Update: Almost 200 comments, time to close here. You can continue on the newer threads.

I'll be at work most of the day. Here's an open thread for you. You pick the topics, whatever is on your mind today.

Caution to new commenters: You must put url's in html format (use the link button at the top of the comment box to paste it in) or it will skew the site and I have to delete your entire comment when I see it. I cannot edit comments, only delete them.

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