... but here she seems to have gotten one right:

Ana Marie Cox tweets:

Things now looking even grimmer in Maine... 76% in, @nomtweets asshats up 52/47.8 (Thanks, Obama, for all the help!)

A short while ago, she re/tweeted:

RT @twpolk If Gays lose in ME by such tight margin, the blame will falls on DNC, OFA and Obama. // Sadly, I think they all know that.

I guess it's cold comfort that a netroots cw purveyor like Ana Marie sees things the same way the real world does.

Haw.

lambert, 2009-11-04:

2. Rural ME [where question 8 was lost] is densely networked and neighborly, partly because of the horrible winter. (You may need to pitch in to heat somebody's house, even if you hate them.)

3. It's going to be important to learn how to organize these networks -- and not just cities -- because "when the trucks stop," that's how the world is going to work.

4. From the coverage, it sounds to me like these networks weren't being organized...

lambert, 2009-11-05:

Courage works
All credit to gay people with the courage to come out to their neighbors. Honestly, I think that's the driving force, here.

Open Left's Adam Bink, 2009-11-09:

The same tactic Milk used for school employees everywhere must continue to be used in these communities. We have to encourage people in these towns to come out of the closet and say they want the right to marry. State Representative Mike Carey, who represents heavily Catholic downtown Lewiston and voted in favor of marriage equality in the legislature, pointed out to me that in these kinds of votes, the default vote is for fear, and it is a huge barrier to reach one's conscience if they have no personal knowledge of the issue. For all the "gay marriage will be taught in schools" ads our opponents ran in Maine and will run in other states that tap that fear element, we have to counter with people who can give voters that kind of personal touch on the issue.

A thoughtful "lessons learned" post from Bink. I certainly hope the same level of self-analysis/self-criticism comes into play during the access blogger post mortem, if any, for the health insurance reform debacle. Who knows? They might even agree with the people they blacked out and censored....