Tonight, FR Publisher Jon Fleischman will "host" a live chat on the FR blog page, as election results come in. Using new technology, FR blog readers will be able to tune in to the live chat, and weigh in themselves in real time!

Be sure to check out the action later this afternoon, when the polls start to close on the East Coast. The live blog feed will appear atop FR’s blog page tonight.… Read More

They are spreading the eats and drinks around. Donuts, Coffee, Donuts, Pizza, Donuts, Ice Cream, Donutsand yes..Tequila are all free to voters at various locations throughout Los Angeles County.

No word on what ACORN is offering folks. But there are free donuts.… Read More

As we wait these last few hours for the polls to close, I thought I’d share some interesting numbers sent out by the guys at Political Data.

Total Voters in California– 17,247,190 New Voters Registered After 9/15/2008 –1,225,894 Total Early Voters –6,954,009 Permanent Absentee Voters –5,785,495 Voters in Mail Ballot Precincts –603,009 Voters Applying to Vote Early– 1,285,330 Returned Ballots (Voted) as of 11/3/2008– 3,941,247… Read More

On this election day, much will be decided across this country. The next President and Vice President will be elected. Republicans will certainly lose seats in the United States Senate, but will we be able to retain enough seats to filibuster against egregious, left-wing legislation? Pundits estimate House GOP loses in the neighborhood of 20-30 seats (some say that Tom McClintock’s bid for Congress is in peril, and that once-thought-safe incumbent Members of Congress like Dan Lungren are no longer assured reelection).

As the State Legislative level, it is unclear whether the sizable lead of Barack Obama in California will sweep Democrats into an even greater lock-hold on the Senate and Assembly, or whether, like in 2006, the Democrat wave will crash at the border (no state legislative seats changed parties that year).

In the State Senate, only one seat – the 19th District – is really in… Read More

On this election day, much will be decided across this country. The next President and Vice President will be elected. Republicans will certainly lose seats in the United States Senate, but will we be able to retain enough seats to filibuster against egregious, left-wing legislation? Pundits estimate House GOP loses in the neighborhood of 20-30 seats (some say that Tom McClintock’s bid for Congress is in peril, and that once-thought-safe incumbent Members of Congress like Dan Lungren are no longer assured reelection).

As the State Legislative level, it is unclear whether the sizable lead of Barack Obama in California will sweep Democrats into an even greater lock-hold on the Senate and Assembly, or whether, like in 2006, the Democrat wave will crash at the border (no state legislative seats changed parties that year).

In the State Senate, only one seat – the 19th District – is really in… Read More

This just in from Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association… HJTA has released itsannual Legislative report card based on the votes and/or abstentions on 29 bills introduced in the California Legislature. These bills include proposals which either directly diminish the protections of Propositions 13 or 218, or are “tax like fees” that should require voter approval per Proposition 13. 2008 saw an overall lowering of grades as several bills (including what is now Proposition 1A (High Speed Rail) were passed with bipartisan support despite our strenuous objections. The number of A grades received (28) is the lowest ever. The number of B grades received is our highest ever (14).We’d also like to commend the four legislators who received perfect scores in 2008: Joel Anderson, Ted Gaines, Audra Strickland, & Mimi Walters.Especially on Election Day, it is important… Read More

A few days ago, I had an opportunity to sit down for about a half hour and conduct an interview with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a Californian, who is Co-Chairman of Senator McCain’s Presidential Campaign. Meg Whitman was in Orange County, and chatted over at the Irvine Hyatt Hotel, after she spoke to a New Majority event, and before she went on to a McCain for President function.

Whitman’s relatively recent arrival on the political scene has piqued the interest of many. Her success story at eBay, her net worth (rumored to be close to the billion dollar mark) and her high profile with the McCain campaign have made her quite the topic of discussion. Yet, still not much is known about Whitman’s politics.

Rather than substantially editing down the interview (which I typically do for interviews), I thought that it would… Read More

I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, but, should a miracle occur, and Republicans avert the impending debacle that many of the polls now predict, we should recognize that such a victory would be a divine gift, and not the result of any thing we have done to deserve the respect and support of the American people.

We deserve to lose, because we have not been who we say we are. We have spent so much time worrying about how we market ourselves that we have forgotten to worry about doing the right thing. The most unfortunate thing about that sad state of affairs is we know what the right thing to do is, and people know we know. We promise to shrink government, to cut taxes, to eliminate government control of peoples lives, to restore liberty and true equality, to eliminate government power, and to make government less of influence in people’s lives. People entrusted us with power to do just that. We didn’t. We played politics with our principles. More important, after people took power away from us for not living up to our promises, we still played politics with our principles. The most recent bail out of the financial markets for… Read More