Campaign Countdown

Chuck Todd at MSNBC seems to get nothing but respect from the progressive blogosphere, so if you're getting antsy and need a daily fix without the slant, go here (even if they write things so far ahead of time — pre-posting — that they forget Phelps is already ahead of his eighth gold medal. SENIOR MOMENT ATTACK: It has been so long since I wrote the word "eighth" that I had to think really, really hard. Oy!)

Without further ado:

Countdown to Dem convention: 10 days
Countdown to GOP convention: 17 days
Countdown to Election Day 2008: 81 days
Countdown to Inauguration Day 2009: 158 days

P.S. Word on the street today is that Sen. Tom Kaine, a good friend of Obama's, will be the v.p. and he'll take Virginia this year. I'm thinking that not only is Mark Warner giving the kickoff speech at the convention, he's getting set up to run for president in 2016. But I know nothing of either man,  except Kain'e pro-life, which will have some of us feminists really, really worried.
I swallowed hard on the FISA vote, the NATO for Georgia statement, but can't go there on any abortion change that doesn't go my way. Of course, I can't vote for McCain either. Obama's people know we've got nowhere to turn. Shit.

UPDATE: Okay, I guess it's me that got the medal thing wrong. Could have sworn I heard 10 medals from NBC yesterday. Another Senior Moment attack.