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If you're still wondering about the vote in Ohio and the exit polls and so on, you ought to be reading Keith Olberman. He's been covering the story non-stop since the election; it's probably not too overwrought to say he's staking his credibility on it. He is also being very careful not to wear a tin-foil hat.

What's clear at this point is that the Kerry campaign is very quietly working towards a recount in Ohio. The Libertarian/Green effort is acting, consciously or not, as a stalking horse. Jesse Jackson has come on board to do the heavy rhetorical lifting. A guy named Cliff Arnebeck is about to file a contest of election lawsuit, and he looks like he knows what he's doing.

I don't expect the recount to change anything, and I don't think there was voter fraud by a strict definition of the word. I do think there were vote suppression efforts; I think there always are. But I do expect a recount to happen. And yeah, Kerry had it planned all along.

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There was some concern that Harry Reid wouldn't be a combative Senate Minority Leader. Comes from a red state, so vulnerable to election challenges; moderate; all that stuff.

Harry Reid on Clarence Thomas: "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written. I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice." He then praised Scalia's intelligence but said Scalia has some ethics problems. So, yeah, the guy has some cojones. I'm betting he'll make Frist use the nuclear option if it comes down to it.