Primaries are totally happening today in Indiana and North Carolina, in case you had somehow forgotten. I started looking for exit polls at 8 AM and still, nothing.

Oh man, hasn't it been too long since you heard someone promise to appoint strict constructionist judges? If that's the case, McCain hooks you up.

The Associated Press reports that this election cycle will see some 3.5 million new voters headed to polling places. The long lasting Democratic primary has contributed a great deal to that number of new voters, as political relevancy in national politics has come to states rarely visited in the past.

Words fail me:

Those in possession of drug paraphernalia as part of a needle-exchange program can be prosecuted, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Monday, clearing the way for a case against three activists who passed out clean syringes.

"Participants in the program may, in the discretion of the prosecutor, be prosecuted under the Texas Controlled Substances Act," read the opinion signed by Attorney General Greg Abbott.

Via BOR: my hate-hate relationship with polls is not a secret, but Rasmussen usually delivers a snapshot that reflects reality. With only this data for reference I can only be encouraged and skeptical, but the encouraging part is pretty good. Cornyn / Noreiga?

I often argue against the privatization of health care. The general theme behind those criticisms is that if health care becomes a wholly corporate matter rather than a reflection of societal responsibility, the pursuit of health care provision in this country will focus on profits even more than it already does. That state governments are finding private Medicare insurance to be problematic, insufficient, and of little or no use to their citizens is a prime indicator that there might be something to my argument after all.

I forgot to mention - did you see this on Hardball, when John McCain implied we went to war in the Middle East over oil?

The New York Times and McClatchy cannot seem to agree on whether Iran and Hezbollah are arming and training Iraqi insurgents. Hmm. This bears watching.

Rasmussen has a poll on our very own Texas Senate race out today that shows incumbent Junior Senator John Cornyn at 47% and Democratic challenger Rick Noriega at 43%.

Oil is hanging out around $120 per barrel today.