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by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I'm really just watching this in a big room on TV, so you're as equipped to deliver your thoughts as I am.  Although, The Nation's Mark Cooper and HuffPo's Max Follmer are sitting in front of me, and Todd from MyDD and John Amato of Crooks and Liars on either side, so it's a somewhat bigger living room than yours.  There are actually maybe 300 media folks in here.

Consider this an open thread and I'll check in where needed.  This won't be a full liveblog.

...We are getting a live feed of Wolf Blitzer warming up the audience.  He just said "I love politics."  I expected him to say "I don't understand it, but I love it..."

...Someone in the audience just asked Wolf "Where's Anderson." Har!

...the best part of this debate is going to be when the cast of "No Country For Old Men" storms the stage at the end.

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Two groups of Caliticians will be hitting Nevada for the weekend to cover the caucuses on Saturday afternoon.  I will be with Todd Beeton of MyDD in Las Vegas; and Brian, Juls and I believe Lucas will be in the Reno area.  In Vegas, we'll be hitting the "closing argument" events from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Friday night (John Edwards actually has a morning event in Vegas that we'll probably miss, and then he leaves Nevada for Oklahoma and Missouri), and we'll make an appearance at one of the at-large precinct caucuses on the Strip on Saturday.  I'll let the NorCal component check in with their plans.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Terry Williams

Today's big terryfaceplace news is that the election to recall most of the members of the Potrero Planning Group was yesterday, and the entire "pro-Blackwater" slate has been replaced by an overwhelming margin. Excellent news. Not only is this a statement against Blackwater, but a stand against elected officials who've been nothing but arrogant at every turn.

I'm not going to go over all the details because much has been written on the subject already today, but this makes me very happy.

For more words, check out: Juls at Kos and Calitics, and Todd at MyDD.

I just love this for three reasons. First, it's in large part a public NO vote against Blackwater establishing a base of operations in Potrero. It doesn't belong there. Where does it belong? I dunno. But I know it does not belong in Potrero. It's wrong for the area, and the people don't want it. Just go away, Blackwater.

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Greetings from the almost-impossible-to-enter-by-car Wadsworth Theater for a Presidential forum on energy and environmental issues, featuring John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Dennis Kucinich.  All the campaigns had good support out in front of the venue.  I'm here with Hekebolos, thereisnospoon from Daily Kos, RJ Eskow from the Huffington Post, Todd Beeton of MyDD and a couple others in Blogger's Row.  Each candidate will get a half-hour to answer questions on their energy plans.  There's a live webcast starting at 2:00pm PT at the enviro website Grist.

There will be press availability afterwards, possibly with Edwards.

UPDATE (1:26pm) Just got a pamphlet from the NRDC entitled "Solving Global Warming: It Can Be Done."  Interesting, considering that the latest IPCC report yesterday basically said it can't be done and it's time to adapt to a warmer future.  Wonder if that will come up today.

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

1)      Spokane clubs, spokesmanreview.com

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/features/story.asp?ID=212858

 2)      PETA, anti-war rallies liven daily commute in Gables, cggazette.com

http://cggazette.com/absolutenm/templates/indextemp.aspx?articleid=3267&zoneid=1

3)      Gettysburg group to discuss issues, eveningsun.com

http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_7071252

4)      DC Deaniacs Endorsement Vote - Obama Wins but short of 2/3, mydd.com

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/10/3/221725/816

 5)      Bilirakis aide's daughter gets government healthcare, dailykos.com

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/3/121949/040 

6)      DFA features Powers, waterbuffalopress.com