I have to admit that I was a bit shy about the new comments and diaries format.
I even stayed away from here for a few days. But, having come back, taken a look and written a few comments (well, lots) and some diary entries myself, I have to say that I am pretty pleased both with the system and with the extraordinarily high quality of the commentary here. The energy is simply amazing. It really puts other political sites to shame and is the nexus these days of my daily political reading.
I was going to venture to say that the DailyKOS is becoming something like The Free Republic for people on the left, but something like Democratic Underground might already fill that role. Besides, the discourse hereabouts is of a much higher quality.
Here is hoping that the Democratic party higher-ups and the presidential campaigns have dailykos.com open on a desktop somewhere in their office and are monitoring it for the zeitgeist.