Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread

What You Missed on Sunday Kos ....

• georgia10 previewed and artfully debunked the anticipated and inevitable attacks of the Republican smear masters who will claim the election has been stolen when they lose to Barack Obama in "We could lose, I suppose, if they cheat us out of it" and Other Tales of Republican Delusion.
• mcjoan brought a double serving of campaign life on the trail with two western Democrats, first with Jill Derby in the Silver State in NV-02: Nevada Ready to Rumble and later in the day with an account of hanging out with Gary Trauner in Laramie in the autumn in WY-AL: Who Doesn't Love A Parade?.
• Plutonium Page took aim and fired at Sarah Palin and her continued use of hate speech--and her ties to radical groups--in Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition:  Sarah Palin's Extremist Ties.
• Devilstower looks at the ruins of Francis Fukuyama's triumphal 1992 declaration of the permanent ascendance of western democracy in  The End of the End of History.