I won’t bury the lede: After nearly two years, the curtain is coming down on this blog.

It was a fantastic ride, and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed covering the primary and general election. I’m …

The Politico-USC election conference is streaming LIVE here in the Land of Troy.

If you can’t get enough analysis of the ‘08 race, check it out.

Aides to both Obama and McCain are offering some candid insights …

My colleagues Patrick O’Connor and Ryan Grim have been all over the changes on the Hill, and have a smart look today at what may be the most significant shift of them all:

Henry Waxman’s bloodless coup to oust John …

This is either brilliant advance work or, well, something else.

(Start at about the 1:05 mark)

I have a story up on an eyebrow-raising question on the Obama appointee questionnaire:

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is asking potential appointees detailed questions about gun ownership, and firearms advocates aren’t happy about it.

The National Rifle Association …

If you’re in SoCal this weekend, please come to our post-election panel.

Sponsored by Politico and USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, it will include sessions Friday and Saturday featuring top officials from both campaigns as well …

It’s not official yet, but John McCain is only too happy to see his governor, Janet Napolitano, in the Obama cabinet and out of contention for his Senate seat, which is up in 2010.

The statement from his Senate office …

This time at the other end of Pennsylvania Ave.

At a substantive level, this news will have just as much impact than the assorted cabinet appointments leaking out.

Patrick O’Connor:

California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned long-time …

In his always must-read Granite Status column, John DiStaso today publishes some choice excerpts from emails sent by McCain New Hampshire chairman Peter Spaulding to the campaign’s top national staffers complaining about the direction of the local campaign.   …

Count Joe Lieberman as on board for the HRC as SecState.

From an interview tonight with Katie Couric:

Well, I’m a big Hillary Clinton fan. I think if he decided he wanted her and she decided she wanted to do …