Before the game...

Alrighty, gang, I'm back on campus. So here's a long blog before the game starts.

Newport News has endorsed Tim Kaine for Governor.

Lynne Cheney reiterates Dick Cheney's remarks. No run in 2008.

Jon Stewart returns to GWU this Friday for the first time since October 15 when he cancelled Crossfire.

Reform Ohio Now is being attacked by the right wing Republicans. This press release from NJDC was sent to me earlier today:

That's why we believe that one of the most important votes of this election season is about to take place in Ohio, one that could have long-term national effects. Initiatives that would clean up Ohio election law-fixing many of the problems from the 2004 debacle-are on the verge of becoming law and could open up to competition as many as ten Congressional seats.

Not surprisingly, Reform Ohio Now, the group behind the measures, is being attacked by the radical Christian right and the well-financed Republican machinery that has benefited from the political corruption in Ohio.

With your help, they have a real chance to win.

Go do your part and help.

Ryan Lizza writes about who the anti-Hillary may be.

In fact, the anti-Hillary field is already carved up into two camps: those who are positioning themselves based on the electability argument and those poised to mount an ideological challenge from the left. Senators Joe Biden and Evan Bayh, as well as a cadre of red-state governors like Mark Warner, Tom Vilsack, and Bill Richardson, are in the electability camp. War critics like Russ Feingold and Wesley Clark are in the ideological camp.

Will pro-war votes hurt candidate chances in 2008? Well, people make mistakes. Is it that hard to ask forgiveness?

Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, John Kerry of Massachusetts and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina are mulling over running for the Democratic nomination. All voted in October 2002 for a resolution authorizing the president to use force in Iraq.

They no doubt will be forced to explain their positions - both then and now - and in doing so could open themselves to attack from candidates who didn't support the resolution or didn't have to cast the politically tricky vote.

The only other oft-mentioned potential Democratic presidential candidate in the Senate - Russell Feingold, D-Wis. - voted against the resolution. Other possible hopefuls, such as Govs. Mark Warner of Virginia, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Tom Vilsack of Iowa, weren't in Congress.

Primary races are all about which candidate gets the largest share of support from the party faithful. Public opinion polls show that Democratic loyalists overwhelmingly disapprove of Bush's handling of the war and believe the United States should never have gone into Iraq in the first place.

That staunch opposition raises questions of whether Democratic primary voters will be comfortable supporting a candidate who at least initially backed the war they oppose.

The situation facing Democrats who voted for the Iraq war resolution has been likened to Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1964 vote in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, perceived as the vehicle that gave President Johnson carte blanche to escalate the Vietnam War.

Many Senators are now saying it was wrong.

Alright, I'll be liveblogging much of the game after 9 even though it starts at 8:28 PM.