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The overwhelming majority of TPM readers are pro-sanity, so I imagine quite a few of you will be coming to DC this weekend for the “Rally To Restore Sanity.” We have fewer pro-fear readers, but the “March To Keep Fear Alive” will be a draw, too.

So here’s the deal. We’re going to have reporters and photographers in the field on Saturday providing live updating coverage (as long as the cellphone networks allow). But they’re only going to be able to cover one slice of the event. That’s where you come in.

We want your photographs and your observations and invitations to your parties. Training in from New York Friday night? Send us a picture. Road tripping in with friends? Send us your account. Partying like rock stars on Saturday night? We’ll accept those pics, too. You know where to send them (the “Send Comments & News Tips” link at the top of this page).

Help cover the event and give fellow readers a better sense of what’s happening. Keep us posted.

After being treated for an infection related to post-breast cancer reconstructive surgery, Carly Fiorina has been greenlighted to return to the campaign trial tomorrow.

Feds indict Virginia man for allegedly plotting to launch bomb attacks on the DC Metro transit system in suburban Northern Virginia. The people he is charged with plotting with were federal agents.

Late Update: From the Washington Post:

The investigation is focused on a naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from Pakistan, who became the target of an undercover sting operation, the sources said. An administration official said the man drew the attention of law enforcement officials by seeking to obtain unspecified materials. The planned attack was not imminent, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains under investigation.

Fox News keeps lecturing President Obama today on civil rights history after he used term “back of the bus.” tells Republicans they “gotta sit in back.”

We’re under a week to go and we’ve just updated our numbers. So take a look at our snapshot of where the key races stand one week out. We’ve put together a slide show of the trend graphs, as of today, of all the key races. Take a look.

If you want to dig into the numbers yourself rather than take the guided tour, use the interactive map at TPMPolltracker to find any race in the country you want.

We first heard that someone was sending out absentee ballots to Illinois Dems with key, but subtle, errors contained in them. The sort that would likely lead to those ballots getting tossed in a close race. It looked like it might be part of a dirty tricks campaign.

Alas, no. The Dems just sent out tons of error-riddled absentee ballot applications.

John McCain has been declaring that Washington is broken since at least 1989 (he’s been in Congress since 1983). Jon Stewart has the video take-down. Pay special attention to the evolving eyeglass styles.

Here’s a classic example of the voter-fraud bamboozle. A conservative group in Minnesota, which is still “fighting” Al Franken’s win over Norm Coleman in 2008, initially claimed that it had found 1,250 cases of illegal voting in that race. Then they dropped that number down to 450 and submitted their evidence to the local prosecutor. The prosecutor just finished reviewing that evidence and filed charges in 47 cases, or about 4 percent of the original claim.

The point in exposing this long-term “voter fraud” bamboozlement from Republicans isn’t that actual voter fraud doesn’t ever occur. It’s that instances of it are so small and isolated, that they are largely inconsequential. That doesn’t mean those cases shouldn’t be prosecuted but it does mean that the major impediments the bamboozlers want to raise to voting, including voter ID laws, are ostensibly to address a problem that is overblown. So then the question becomes why overstate the problem and propose draconian solutions to it?

As I noted yesterday, there are four Senate races that seem legitimately in doubt: Colorado, West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois. (Others like PA and KY and WA could flip. But as I said yesterday, those outcomes require more heroic assumptions. Especially WA and KY, which look pretty much settled.) Of those West Virginia and Nevada, are each leaning a bit to the Dems and GOP, respectively. Illinois leans ever so slightly to the GOP. But Colorado is the one that seems truly anybody’s guess. Nate Silver just changed his rating of the race to a 53.5% chance for the GOP.

The last two polls of the race (both robopolls by SurveyUSA and PPP) both have it dead even at 47% each. Before that all the non-partisan polls showed Buck ahead, but by a declining margin.

Eric Lach brings us the latest on the race and why it’s tightening.