"Battlestar Galactica" is perhaps the smartest and most comprehensive artistic meditation on life in post-9/11 America that exists in all of popular culture. Also, it has sexy robots, which is pretty awesome.

John McCain talked about foreign policy in Los Angeles today. The good news is, McCain is no Bush. The bad news is, McCain is McCain. Forgive my visceral reaction, then, but it can't be helped: Ugh.

Apparently we could win the war in Iraq if people would just stop complaining about how we're not winning the war in Iraq. Abe Greenwald takes note of new research suggesting that violence in Iraq spikes after periods of intense war criticism:

Sounds to me like these voters made their choice perfectly clear. From an Associated Press report: "Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all? That's the situation city officials in Tamarac (Fla.) are facing. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County community."

The county spent $2,500 to keep the polling site open for 12 hours. But who can put a price on democracy?

There have been some early misconceptions about what RedBlueAmerica is all about. We've been tagged as middle of the road, absolutely unbiased, rigidly bipartisan and so forth. I'll have more to say about those errors later, but the short answer to all of them is: Nope. Not so. Wrong. And no. If anyone doubts it, take two minutes to browse the Blog page.

I also recommend reading Jonah Goldberg's column in the New York Post today. Goldberg makes a point about the row between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that I think applies perfectly to what we're trying -- or, rather, not trying -- to do here...