For years they co-hosted "Crossfire"; after it was canceled, they were regulars on "The Situation Room" and election night specials.
Leah Rosen, a history major from Denver, still vividly remembers witnessing a fistfight outside her dormitory room on election night in 2008 between Obama supporters and McCain supporters.
Ah, the governor's race: It has sucked all the air out of the room this election cycle, hasn't it?
"We were in the control room at election headquarters during the day, and we could see on a screen that sixteen thousand polling places were online and ready".
As I said to Ann when she was sobbing in our hotel room on Election Night, we left it all out on the field, but we didn't bring our A-game.
In the south-western city of Ahwaz, the cutting of two trees to make room for election banners provoked a backlash from activists and residents that prompted the campaign office to condemn those who had slashed the trees.
On Saturday, in one room, 100 election workers sorted through absentee ballots, placing thousands of punch card ballots -- those of hanging, dimpled and pregnant chad fame -- into one of two small cardboard boxes labeled "good" and "damaged," or tossing them into a metal basket labeled "snags".
Mitt Romney's neoconservative belief that a US Congress with a majority Democratic leadership--leaders who tend to be voted in by a large black and brown voting bloc--speaks to the elephant (or, republican) in the room this election year.
Less-centrally located is a three-bedroom cottage in Lanehead, Rochdale, which for the last 40 years has been used for elections as Peter and Christine Hodgkinson turn their dining room into an election booth.
Citizens Union reported recently that a third of the Legislature was first anointed as candidates in these back-room, special-election deals.
