I looked through that site of Romney's supporters and campaign workers mourning and I do feel sorry for them. I think they chose wrongly, but my heart goes out to them for being so sad and distraught. And I heard about the staff credit cards being cut off - that's just tacky. Also petty and mean; I'm assuming no one thought through what it was going to mean for people trying to get home afterwards - hope no one needed to take a plane home from the campaign - but it seems of a whole with the inability to think through what something means to people who don't have a lot of money to fall back on. Or even enough cash on hand for a cab ride.

I read that his staffers are getting paid through November, and the Romney campaign's first order of business is now helping them with their resumes. I'd like to think that credit card thing was just an isolated stuff-up.

(I also read that the Secret Service packed up Romney's detail immediately. He arrived to his HQ in a fifteen-car motorcade; he left in the back of a single car, driven by Tagg.

It is named ORCA? Like the whale?

I'm getting my pedant on. Technically, it's not a whale; it's the world's largest porpoise.

Big ass snow flakes silently falling down outside. It's very pretty and I don't have to drive anywhere. I think I'll light some candles and incense.

For those not sick of election discussion yet:

Mitt Romney's disastrous ground game and 7 other behind-the-scenes revelations - The Week

Or like the Seattle area transit cards. Of course, since they are ORCA cards as "one regional card for all" I always think of them in my head as "one card to rule them all", even if that would be OCRA instead.

A look at Orca from a techie perspective: [link]

As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link]

As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link].

Me too.

And Obama won Hispanic voters by 44 percent -- 72 percent Obama to 28 percent Romney

Does anyone know what the Hispanic numbers were like in 2008?

I found this about the Hispanic voting numbers in 2008 [link]

Interesting. I'm curious about what might have changed between now and then--obviously people have had a chance to see what Obama's like in office, but I'm also curious about demographics that might have been increasingly alienated over the past year by GOP shenanigans--are Hispanics feeling more uncomfortable? Are women clenching their knees and telling them to get away from their uteruses?