Does anyone else remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books?  The ones where you got to make choices and decide what the main character was going to do next (or to "choose your own adventure"). My favorite was one that had something to do with a bicycle and a cone-shaped machine that eliminated air resistance.

As a kid, I loved those books.  Thanks to those books and countless Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and Redwall books, I grew to love reading books and still do.  I'll read a couple of books a week if given the chance.

But now over at FiveThirtyEight.com, one of my daily must-reads, Nate (or as I like to call him, the Analyst Formerly Known as Poblano) has something suited for all of us -- a choose your own vote total counter.

No matter what happened today, someone was going to be pissed.  Someone's supporters would be complaining about the decision.  We all knew this going in.

Were the results fair?  Depends on your point of view.

First of all, the results of both states were clearly not fully representative of the full amount of people who wished to vote.  In either state.  Voters were told repeatedly, including by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Since the main bone of contention with the RBC ruling seems to be Michigan, I'm going to go ahead and just concentrate on Michigan first, and spend the most time discussing this.

I think this is the first non-New Mexico diary I have wrote in quite a while.

I come to MyDD daily to look at the news from another perspective.  The Breaking Blue function is probably the most useful tool on the blogosphere for getting good state-level progressive news.  I use it to highlight stories from New Mexico that might be important to others.  

But one diary made me laugh when I saw the title in the sidebar: She won the second-half.  This is obviously referring to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's Presidential race; alegre, the diarist, is a huge Clinton supporter.

or, Sowing the Seeds of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Dozens of progressive bloggers descended upon Washington DC for a Blogger's Summit this weekend. From the reddest of red states to the bluest of blue, from huge state blogs to smaller state blogs, from bloggers on black issues to bloggers on Latino issues, it was truly a diverse group of bloggers.  Oh, and at times,  it seemed as if half the people at the bloggers hailed from California, Colorado and Michigan.

The effort by the New Organizing Institute, the Center for American Progress, Media Matters and the Arca Foundation was phenomenal, and my hat is off to them.

Not quite as big a news roundup as last week. The start of the week was a bit slow, but the pace picked up near the end of the week.  Nothing as big as last week which featured the end of operations at the Albuquerque Tribune (still weird to walk by a newspaper machine at 3:00 in the afternoon and see a Journal staring out at you), but still some news happened.

Headlines

There were two Presidential match-up polls released this week for the state of New Mexico, and both showed Senator Barack Obama did better than Senator Hillary Clinton against Senator John McCain.  But both polls painted drastically different general election pictures.

Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP

Full disclosure: I run a state-level blog which is part of Blogs United and the 50 State Blog Network.

Going into this year's important elections, not only is there a chance for a historic Presidential election, but there is a chance to expand our majorities in both the House and Senate.  While national blogs are great places to follow the House and Senate races (personally, I prefer Swingstate Project and the new and improved Senate Guru), there is another growing section of the blogosphere that is growing.

State and local blogs are growing not only in number, but also in readership and influence.  And they are still great places to get news in your home state that you otherwise might not see if you only looked at the national-level blogs.

Or, as Betsy Muse put it in this week's 50-State Blog Roundup:

One way to stay on top of this is to follow along with the state blogs. We're discussing our congress critters and their shenanigans long before it hits the national scene. Stop by. Check us out. You too can be the first to know.

We have two great candidates running for Senate in the Mountain West.  The two are cousins from a great Democratic political family -- the Udalls.  Tom Udall and Mark Udall are both looking like great chances to turn two red Senate seats blue.  And these aren't Bush Dog Dems.

As I mentioned, they are from a great political family, the Udalls.  Mark (the Colorado Udall) is the sun of famed Representative Mo Udall. Mo Udall was an Arizona Congressman from 1961 to 1991.  He served from when John F Kennedy was in office to just before Bill Clinton replaced the first President George Bush.  And he did great work during his tenure on many issues -- most notably the environment.

More on the Udall family and the feature on them in Outside magazine below the fold.

Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP and Daily Kos.

Note: You can also follow the New Mexico Super Delegates at the Super Delegate Transparency Project.

If you say you knew what a super delegate was before this year's Democratic Presidential race... you're either lying or you are a legendary political junkie.  Or maybe you were once a super delegate yourself.

And many of those who now know about the existence of super delegates still do not know who are super delegates and how one becomes a super delegate.  To become a super delegate, you must be a current or former elected officeholder or a DNC party official.  So who are the super delegates in New Mexico and who do they support?

Go below the fold to see.

Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP