Mid-afternoon open thread

What You Missed on Sunday Kos ...

• DemFromCT looked at the practical frustrations and probable slow incrementalism of true health care reform in America in a masterful overview, When Can We Expect Health Care Reform (Whoever Wins).
• DavidNYC wrote passionately about our shared passion: "we politi-philes are nerds at heart - nerds who care about our chosen subject, and nerds who care about outcomes" in What We Love, an essay that questioned why so many political reporters seem to despise the subject of their beat.
• kos reflected on the 50-state strategy, the power of the grassroots movement and how conventional wisdom have evolved in just a few short years in The Dean Legacy.
• Devisltower handed out his first round of The Opprobrium Awards for egregious, willful awfulness in traditional journalism,
• DHinMI took a close, analytical look at the numbers in the most recent Democratic primaris in Will Obama Outperform the Polls Again? and concludes, "If the pattern seen in these figures continues on Tuesday, Obama will win Texas and possibly Ohio as well." In a EMILY’s List, ASFCME and Federation of Teachers Have Kept the Clinton Campaign Alive, he looks at primary campaign spending.
• Meteor Blades reflected on another era in American history that hailed a promise of hope and change in Blast from the Past: FDR’s ‘Hundred Days’ Honeymoon - 1933.