A reader just sent me this video from Heritage Action, the PAC of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. On one level it’s just a call for conservatives to keep up the fight, stay involved, despite Obama’s reelection victory. Nothing too surprising about that. But it has this sort of Wagnerian, Leni Riefenstahl quality to it that seems a tad jarring, at least a day or two after the election. (Notably, it was posted on Tuesday.) It has the feel of that fortitude against the bleak tomorrow futurism that I associate with the Terminator series.

Watch it after the jump … Read More

Say what you want about our spending while running the RNC, at least we won elections. THAT’S what I call an ROI. dailycaller.com/2012/11/08/rnc…

— Michael Steele (@Steele_Michael) November 8, 2012

Two Republicans in separate states were arrested this week for allegedly trying to vote twice — to test the system they’ve undoubtedly been conditioned to believe is riddled with fraud.

One of them was a Republican poll watcher.

“From what we understand, he was trained by the Republican Party,” the local police chief in the New Mexico case tells TPM.

Ryan Reilly reports.

I see from this morning’s news that Republicans are now moving into the Mondale/Dukakis ‘we just need better candidates’ phase of the process. Please proceed, Republicans. Read More

SuperPAC Billionaire asks: What the F’ happened to all my money?

We’re doing our best to keep bringing you the news from our New York office. But alas Time Warner Cable, our primary local internet provider, seems to have a new policy of blaming Hurricane Sandy for local Internet outages that seem totally unrelated to Sandy. Sandy is a huge problem for everyone in the area. But using it as an excuse for unrelated issues that you’re choosing not to fix seems really uncool.

So if you see new posts in Morse Code, you’ll know Time Warner Cable’s war on TPM has been temporarily successful.

But we will not give up. We will fight on the help lines, on the fiber optic cable, on the twitter DMs. We shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this website or a large part of it were muzzled, then our DC office guarded by better connectivity, will carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, someone gets their act together and stops making up stories and gets us back our usually semi-reliable office Internet.

Once again, the top source of voter fraud in the United States today seems to be James O’Keefe wannabes “testing” the system by committing voter fraud. These two Republican clowns were apparently trying to do that. Now they’re in custody.

In other words, the enforcement system seems to be working pretty well. And the clearly a lengthy prison term is in order.

Obama lays down his first post-election marker on the looming budget negotiations. Watch.

PollTracker editor Kyle Leighton is hosting a live chat at 3pm eastern in the Prime Blog, so get your questions in now.

CIA Director David Petraeus resigns over an extramarital affair.

Like most people I find this news pretty flabbergasting. I will say there’s some important context: extra-marital affairs in CIA, however common they may be, are always a big, big deal since they invite potential blackmail. So whatever else is going on here it’s significantly different than an ordinary politician having an affair. But still, wow.