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Helen Thomas on stage with Hill and Bill in Iowa?

Hi everybody! Chrissy is back tonight... Leading off with Howard Fineman and Byron York re: election fallout and Arlen Specter.

I was held up at my daughter's dance class...last night's thread was tons of fun. What did I miss tonight? I see Chrissy is home getting some "well-deserved" rest.

Here we go...Chrissy is crying...join the fun.

Just curious...does anyone know Kerry and Edwards' Secret Service detail ends? Think those guys are relieved? Did Kerry treat them better than Clinton?

As we conclude this amazing election campaign, we have just one question for our readers: When has an incumbent candidate ever won when he is tied with his challenger on election eve? The answer is never--at least in the age of polling that began in the 1930s. So George W. Bush needs to beat history, and the polls, to win the election tomorrow. It is possible that the vagaries of the Electoral College will enable Bush to eke out a victory, and it is also possible that the Republican Party's get out the vote effort will equal or exceed the...

In the campaign’s final days, Kerry continues to claim that Bush “outsourced” the job of going after bin Laden in Tora Bora (search) to Afghan warlords. But the Democrat’s charge rankles not only retired Gen. Tommy Franks, a strong Bush supporter on the campaign trail, but also Army special forces soldiers who say they searched for bin Laden in Tora Bora’s treacherous mountains.

Weekly Reader kids select Bush in poll The students who read Weekly Reader's magazines have made their preference for president known: they want to send President Bush back to the White House. The results of this year's Weekly Reader poll have just been announced, and the winner is President Bush. Hundreds of thousands of students participated, giving the Republican president more than 60% of the votes cast and making him a decisive choice over Democratic Senator John Kerry. Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president, making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most...

Bush tried. To a nation that harbors doubts about the president’s ability, the day of horror ended on a note that was reassuring enough but not memorably inspiring. Great presidents, or even the merely serviceable ones, learn to master a medium and an emotion, from Lincoln’s Old Testament invocations of a sense of justice and FDR’s fireside chats to Reagan’s lyrical Irish eulogy after the Challenger disaster and Clinton’s empathy-on-demand sermon in Oklahoma City. Bush has yet to find a note of eloquence in his own voice. He is, in fact, distrustful of it, and went for Texas plain talk, ...