Today is election day!  Have you remembered to vote?  I’m going to go vote right after I finish up this commentary. 

There is a practice within the main stream media to pretty much stop election coverage in the final couple of days before the election, with some notable exceptions.  I think that the idea behind this is that at a certain point, it becomes too late for anyone to contest or disagree with the analysis of a newspaper or a TV station, and that it may just seem a bit unfair to weigh into races in the final days/hours.  That said, there are a few stories on the main page worth a read, on individual races.
 
Today we have featured a column from Sacramento Bee ace columnist Dan Weintraub, who pens a piece on what the various ‘hot spots’ are around the state, providing a ‘guide’ to follow election day results.  Definitely worth a read.
 
In the "Golden Pen" today is a must-read column from the Wall Street Journal’s Brendan Miniter on the lessons of the Congressional District 50 special election.  An excerpt: