by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

Wolf Blitzer, Moderator
Jeanne Cummings, Moderator
Doyle McManus, Moderator

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]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

CNN, the Los Angeles Times and POLITICO announced today that the California Democratic Party will sanction the Jan. 31, 2008, Democratic presidential primary debate in Los Angeles. Scheduled less than one week before Super Tuesday, this debate will be the candidates’ final face-off before primary voters in more than 20 states flock to the polls on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.
 
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will moderate, with journalists from the Los Angeles Times and POLITICO participating in the questioning. This is the only debate that the Democratic Party of California has officially sanctioned in the 2008 race for the White House.
 
“The California Democratic Party is excited that our party’s presidential debate, on the eve of the momentous Feb. 5 primaries, will be in Los Angeles, California,” said California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres. “As a native Angeleno, I am proud to join CNN, the Los Angeles Times and POLITICO in helping our presidential candidates embrace the diversity and vision that California offers all Americans.”
 
CNN, the Los Angeles Times and POLITICO will also sponsor the final Republican primary debate on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will be the site of this debate, which will be moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper with The Times and POLITICO again participating in candidate questioning.

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

America -- land of equality…of equal opportunity, but in the past six years that so called “fairness” has vacated the ranks of business and government.

In the 2008 presidential election, more is at stake than war, poverty and healthcare. The ability for skilled individuals, with reasonable unsullied thoughts to break the chains of ill-bred public perception is also on the line.

How can we as a nation return to justice, and lead in the world with impartiality to all, if our own presidential election has already been handicapped over 500 days before the final voting?  

Worse than giving the impassively brittle Wolf Blitzer more air time than senior statesmen Joe Biden and Mike received Gravel combined, was the fact that from the coverage to the way the