Morning Hors D'oeuvres

Look to the right. That's tightening. Don't panic, but start WORKING HARD. If you're not already volunteering and helping to get out the vote in a battleground state, why not?

And with that, on to the clips ...

Marc makes speculating on the Obama cabinet a daily exercise.

Does anyone else think that the “one party rule” argument that the Republicans are making is funny? Doesn’t it inherently undermine either the presidential candidate or the congressional ones? Or as I heard someone else put it, "They're all going to lose, so vote for me!"

Andrew has McCain v. Palin escalating to “war” status.

Politico looks at the connection between how bad things are for McCain versus how bad things look for

McCain. If it sounds complicated, that’s because it is.

If you’re a regular Andrew Sullivan reader, you know he has a daily feature, “The View From Your Window.” Today’s picture is of Fairbanks, Alaska, and that building on the far left is where Education Dudette and I stayed last summer. It was an awesome trip, which is to say, not everything about Alaska blows as hard as Sarah Palin does.

Sean at FiveThirtyEight writes an amazing piece about the state of the race in North Carolina. I'm starting to get chills.

Nate looks at the days polls. The national numbers are fluctuating a bit – potentially tightening a little – but the state numbers look amazing for Obama.

Ben has the McCain aid on whom the campaign is trying to peg the blame for Palin's wardrobe speaking out on the media.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist – a Republican – just decided to extend early voting hours in Florida. For those keeping score, more hours mean more voters, a situation which tends to favor Democrats. Apparently, he wants to be on the right side of history.

Marc notices that Dole didn't get to the McCain rally in NC today.