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Quin: A point I would like to make is that the dems are fast approaching the point where voters will not be able to pull the lever for anyone with a (D) next to their name. I look for all the red state races to get closer. If Harris drops out and is replaced by a well known name watch out Sen. Nelson. In other red states where Republicans are in trouble look for them to improve (DeWine, Talent, Burns, and Ensign). Another point regarding the Senate is the long term view. Politics can be a marathon and the Republicans need to look to SD (2008), ND (2010) and working hard in Montana and Colorado to increase the voter registration of Republicans. Even look as far as Sen. Ben Nelson in 2012.

A point I would like to make is that the dems are fast approaching the point where voters will not be able to pull the lever for anyone with a (D) next to their name.

We may wish it were true, but Senator Kerry falling just 120,000 Ohioans short of becoming president speaks against it. If the public is ticked off enough at those in power, they'll vote for virtually anyone.

something has to be done with the current set up. The traffic would not improve if the set up prior to the reorganization is not returned. Andrew, hope you do something about this, the promises they made turned out to be lip service. I hope you guys can address this as soon as possible.

Thanks. Obviously, a lot of work has been done to create this new site, and the efforts are appreciated. For example, the new preview feature for comments is excellent. But I've also urged that the admins consider restoring some of the old features (e.g. linear comments instead of threaded/nested comments, waiving password requirement, ability to read all comments in thread while writing a new comment, clickable URLs in the comments, et cetera).

We'll see what happens. Thanks for your comments on the new format.

Frankly I like the nested comments. I think the bigger issue is the password. While it makes little difference to me, some people like to be able to come and feel at least a modicum of privacy over their name without having to go to the trouble (for instance) of creating a second ID with a new email address.

There have been a lot of disagrements at various blogs as to nested versus unnested comments. For example, see here:

http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2004/04/08/threaded-comments/

Personally, I like unnested, because you can just go to the end and see what's new. A perhaps useful analogy is that nested comments are like a cocktail party (different conversations going on at once), whereas unnested comments are like the dinner table.

Unnested comments also have the advantage of simplicity, and the advantage that everything is plainly ordered chronologiocally.

there sure are a bunch of whiners. the new setup will be far superior once all the kinks are ironed out. I'm the last person to say change for change's sake is a good thing, but this is good. we're in the dog days of summer with no news, so things are not unexpectedly slow. keep up the good work guys.

need to make sure that breaks at the end of the post

On the old ConfirmThem it wasn't unusual to have 50+ comments on any given thread, some would go over 200+. The comments have been reduced by about 85% since the move.

Honestly, I don't like the non-court topics, like senate races, being listed here. If things don't change ConfirmThem might be dead. I don't want that, I miss the old site.

I don't think the blog posts have been mentioning Senate races any more than usual.

that probably accounts for the 85%