POLITICS BUZZ: Remember Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher? Unfortunately, so do the good folks at Christianity Today , who decided to let him announce that he would never let “queers” near his children. Furthermore, he claims to have gay friends who, despite his opinions, are going to “do their thing.” Wurzelbacher, however, declined to specify whether “their thing” included “eating children.”

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1. Get More of Joe’s Nuggets of Wisdom
2. via HuffPo
3. Joe’s Waiting On a Message from God

POLITICS BUZZ: John McCain's daughter, who started her blogging career on the campaign trail and has since moved on to writing for the Daily Beast has found herself in a war of words with Laura Ingraham. It started with McCain's issues with Anne Coulter and has escalated in name-calling and weight-joke-making.

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1. Busty Meghan McCain Makes Girl Power Video With Piper Palin
2. McCainBlogette - Read Her Blog!
3. Quit Talking About My Weight, Laura Ingraham!
4. Meghan McCain News: My Beef With Ann Coulter
5. Meghan McCain… Celebrity! (Not Her Daddy’s Little Girl)
6. Daughter Will Retell His Life in a Way George Bush Can Understand
7. Is Meghan McCain Cool, Or Just a Brat? - A Roundup of Quotes
8. Is John McCain’s Daughter Beholden To Special Interests Supplying Her Ugly Boots?
9. McCain’s Blonde Bombshell
10. Mccainblogette’s YouTube Channel
11. Meghan McCain vs. Ann Coulter
12. Meghan McCain: John McCain’s Blogging Daughter
13. Meghan McCain Is A Celebrity Like Obama
14. Meghan McCain - She’s Baaaack, This Time with the Bushes
15. All In The Family
16. Meghan McCain is a Newsweek Intern
17. Hot new blogger on the trail: John McCain’s Daughter
18. Lame Blog Will Make You Cringe
19. Campaigning Is Sooo Tiring, Meghan Guzzles Red Bull
20. Meghan McCain - the New Jenna Bush?
21. “It reads like bad Vogue, or Chicken Soup for the Campaign Daughter’s Soul”
22. McCainBlogette Shoots It Right

POLITICS BUZZ: Did you ever think this day would come? Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. Watch the slideshow and revel in this historic and emotional moment.

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1. Music by Nina Simone

POLITICS BUZZ: It's pretty much a done deal: Barring some juicy scandal, Hillary Clinton will be nominated as Secretary of State after Thanksgiving, according to aides from the Obama camp. The Wall Street Journal reports that “the Obama transition team has resolved the financial disclosure issues surrounding the work of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and the president-elect feels comfortable moving ahead with the nomination.” Does this mean that we're now officially out of interesting political things to talk about until the inauguration?

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1. Yahoo! News
2. Politico: Obama Plans to Name Clinton to State
3. Bloomberg: Clinton Set to Be Nominated as Secretary of State

John McCain made his first post-election appearance on The Tonight Show last night. McCain has a long chat with Jay — is this a snub to Letterman?

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If you factor in population and percentage of votes by county you get this bloated, bulbous monstrosity. That’s also a fitting description for the whole electoral process. Click through to see more.

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1. More Maps and Discussion Here

Ron Paul. Aaaaaand scene.

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1. :( I would’ve voted for you, Ron

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11...

It wasn’t just America who celebrated Obama’s win last night. Check out this amazing collection of photos taken from around the world, showing the international community’s reactions (including one of Barack’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, celebrating in Kenya).

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1. Reactions Around The World (PHOTOS)

Patrick Moberg’s illustration of all the U.S. Presidents.

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When the game came to end, McCain gave a pretty classy final note from his side.

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1. The McCain Concession Speech (Full Text)

POLITICS BUZZ: Here’s my election day experience, in pictures and words.

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Man on the street admits to CNN anchor that he’s voted “a couple times” today. Fraud or not, Ron Jones is a trip.

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1. CNN Vote Fraud Collusion Caught On Tape!

POLITICS BUZZ: After months of threatening to run an ad dredging up Reverend Wright, a group called the National Republican Trust made a splashy ad buy at the eleventh hour, running it nationwide during Monday Night Football, SNL, and (inexplicably) The Rachel Maddow Show . Given the millions of dollars this cost, you’d expect some more strategic thinking about where the ad ran (like, a blitz in battleground states for instance), so what was their actual intention here?

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1. Rev. Wright Ad Just Designed to Bug Liberals?
2. Wright Ad May Be Too Little, Too Late
3. Politico: What if They’d Really Pushed This Angle?
4. Ad Blitz Links Obama, Wright

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Celebrities: They’re just like us! If they didn’t vote early, they’re waiting in line with the rest of us peons to cast their vote - just like Conan O’Brien. So send in any and all celebrity sightings at the polling stations. (B-list actors and reality TV stars count too.)

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SPORTS BUZZ: Democrat Barack Obama tells ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” it’s time for college football to pick a champion with a playoff system while Republican John McCain wants to put an end to performance-enhancing substances. Gee, let’s just wait until most people have already voted to start bringing up the REALLY pressing issues.

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1. Obama Says College Football Needs to Pick a Playoff System Already
2. Obama, McCain On What to Change in Sports, Interviewed During Half-Time Game

POLITICS BUZZ: Let’s try a collection of Election Haiku: Sum up your feeling about the election in a single Haiku…bonus for not using a candidates name… (Haiku is a short poem - first line 5 syllables, second line 7 syllables, third line 5 syllables)

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Link: http://thisfuckingelection.com/

A concise typographic guide to the 2008 election, with a few words yet to come. Ugh. Remember the yellow pantsuit thing, the $400 hair cut debacle? Can’t wait for this sordid mess to be over.

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TECH BUZZ: From reporting on voting conditions to just telling your followers who you’re voting for, the Twitterati are all over the election. “I voted today” seems more significant than “I had a sandwich for lunch, yum.”

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The Best Links:

1. Twitter Vote Report
2. Election 2008 On Twitter
3. TwitVote: Vote & Tweet
4. Obama Wins Twitter - Featured on BuzzFeed

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/amer...

The BBC checks out the redneck Obama fan club.

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1. Funny Sign

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Because a full half-hour infomercial wasn’t quite enough, Barack Obama also made a guest appearance on last night’s Daily Show . Though he generally doesn’t believe in the Bradley effect, he has been going to therapy to make sure his white half doesn’t mess it up in the voting booth.

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