New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) leading former U.S Attorney Chris Christie

What is it with NJ? Polls seem to always show Republicans doing well in early polling there. They seldom win, but I'm guessing there are a lot of people on election day holding their noses.

Wandering around to all the usual websites and it looks like very few people are commenting. I guess we are all suffering a little post election fatigue.

The more I think about Caroline Kennedy, the more I worry that the New York seat might be at risk in 2010. We need a Senator, not a Princess.

Wandering around to all the usual websites and it looks like very few people are commenting. I guess we are all suffering a little post election fatigue.

An alternative explanation is that cyber-slacking is taking a downturn with the economy. Perhaps those worried about their jobs are spending more time actually doing them.

Roland Burris' Senate appointment seems exceedingly likely at this point.

What do you mean "at this point?" It's always been a certainty. The governor of a state made an appointment to fill a senate vacancy! Duh.

Re Burris: SNL this weekend was a scream, with "Rachel Madow" (newbie Abby Elliott), Blago (Jason Sudeikis "in a horribly realistic wig"), and Burris (Keenan Thompson of course.) They still have their chops after all these years, incredible. Don't forget all about MadTV however, they have plenty of good performers and skits.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/01/11/snls-rachel-maddow-interviews-burris-and-blago/

Re the New York Senate seat: the people who are worried about us losing it aren't New Yorkers and don't realize how futile the NYS Republicans have become once the D'Amato-Pataki influence disappeared. (Bloomberg won, yes, but everybody knew he was a moderate Democrat running as a Republican.) They have been unable to find a candidate for Senate known beyond his or her immediate family for years, and they couldn't get anyone to defend their SI Congressional seat once Fosella's 'two families' were discovered.

They have swung so far to the right that King will undoubtedly face strong primary opposition from people who view him as a 'dangerous leftist.'

Even a typically vicious primary fight on the Democratic side is unlikely to give any Republican more than 35% of the vote in the general.

If the New York GOP had any brains (a fact which has not been established), they would leave Schumer unopposed and put all their resources into the special election.

Even then they'd be lucky to get to 40%, but it's their only shot.

"Caroline Kennedy had a formal interview with Gov. David Paterson over the weekend, discussing New York's vacancy in the Senate."

Well, if the good people of New York want a languid, anemic aristocrat to represent them in the Senate, I guess that's their business.

* Caroline Kennedy had a formal interview with Gov. David Paterson over the weekend, discussing New York's vacancy in the Senate. -- Steve Benen

Just for accuracy's sake: she was somewhere in the middle of the line to have had her formal interview. Cuomo and Maloney came before her as did a couple of other people, whose names I don't remember. And there are a few of those formal interviews still to be conducted, at least according to NYT. As the sentence stands, it sounds like her interview had been something unusual, an audience granted only to Princess Caroline. Which is a long way from fact.