For your consideration: friends, family, and associates voting in California say that long lines greeted them at polling places in parts of Los Angeles. It isn't a literal turnout numbers comparison or anything but they were surprised to see it. Besides, the projected California turnout would be record-breaking if it materializes.

You've heard the rumors, and now we know them to be true. Karl Rove is the latest addition to Fox's stable of "journalists" and "pundits".

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo makes a very good point about the disparity between the Zogby and SurveyUSA polls in California: one of them is going to be incredibly, hilariously wrong. But what does that mean about polling in general for today's contests?

Somewhere around $13 million, according to Terry McAuliffe. A huge month by any standards other than the standard set last week by Obama's massive January haul. My wife Diana says we live in strange days when $13 million in 31 days seems like a slow burn by comparison to some other single-month finance run. I agree with her, but what can you do? Welcome to 2008.

Have you seen this from Wikileaks? Via TPMuckraker and the New York Times comes the news that, in 2005, US armed forces were authorized to perform 'cross-border raids into Iran and Syria' from Iraq. The implications of rules of engagement along these lines are large, and both the documents and the stories are worth digging into.

"His flip-flops don't bother me," said my Republican friend at lunch last week. He was talking about Mitt Romney. In a most sarcastic manner, I replied, "We're only talking about issues like abortion. Who can be expected to have a set belief about something like that?"

The Obama campaign's David Plouffe is now trying to manage expectations ahead of tomorrow's contest. The media has latched on to national poll movement as an indicator of possible locations for Obama to pull off some stunning upsets tomorrow, but Plouffe is saying that getting within 100 delegates of Clinton when tomorrow is all said and done is a win for them. And his surrogates have been professing the same sentiment all day long on your favorite cable news network.

Forget what talk radio says or thinks about John McCain. Forget that Romney has so much money. The idea surrounding John McCain — that he is solidifying as the GOP candidate — is stemming from the fact that while he might be losing the conservative primary, he is winning the personality primary.

Mitt Romney is a fan of criticizing Hillary Clinton for her lack of executive experience, and regularly paints himself as a Board Room Superhero that single-handedly stopped a meteor from crashing into the economy in Massachusetts. Turns out he may have been exaggerating about all that economic recovery he takes credit for.

Over at the Star-Telegram's new PoliTex blog, Jay Root muses on whether Perry's endorsements of Giuliani and McCain will cause more trouble in an already troubled relationship — that between Perry and the conservative base.