Even though we've all coasting along on this Obama Hope-train for quite some time now, it never hurts to get a pragmatic perspective. Such as: While Inauguration preparations are being made, somehow, somewhere, Jeb Bush is plotting his trajectory into the Oval Office.

Are you a fan of the conservative magazine Newsmax founded by Christopher W. Ruddy and the guy who started The Reagan Monitor? (With a name like that, how can you not love it?) Do you like being taken hostage for 12-days while GOP pundits and lobbyists talk your ear off about Barack HUSSEIN Obama and the death of the Right?

Well, would you pay $11,290 to $29,560 for the pleasure? Ruddy is really hoping that you will, since that's how he is planning on keeping his conservative baby alive during the next 4-8 years of treacherous waters.

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Nate Silver is finding new and interesting ways to continue his relevance after the election polls have become a thing of the past (for the next two years, anyway).

Silver's website, FiveThirtyEight is now going a different tactic than just analyzing poll data: he's gone straight for the inflammatory interview.

After conservative troll and documentary filmmaker John Ziegler found out that Silver was calling his anti-Obama questionnaires "push polls," the owner of HowObamaGotElected.com offered to grant Silver an interview, on the one condition that the whole transcript would be posted on FiveThirtyEight. Silver complied, and the results are hi-larious, as Ziegler starts out trying to bait Silver into a fight, and ended up blowing his wad with a heap of profanity.

Let's take a looksy, shall we?

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In a bid for new viewership now that their cash cow's star power is on the wane just a teensy bit, Disney is trying to get Malia and Sasha Obama on Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana program for a guest appearance.

This, despite the fact that the Obamas swore after that Access Hollywood interview that they would never put their children in front of the cameras again.

So who is perpetuating the rumors that the Obamas are going to change their mind and allow their daughters to make his daughter more famous? Big pappa Billy Ray, natch:

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MSNBC, ABC, and CNN all reported their largest online traffic ever in the minutes leading up to Barack Obama's win for presidency. According to the people in charge of keeping track of the Internet, the 'net saw their greatest surge ever with "average of 8.5 million visitors per minute" on news sites that generally average 3.0 million.

And that's so good! And even more amazingly than everyone simultaneously going on the Internet on a night that's previously been held dominance over by television news networks, is the fact that none of the websites crashed. That is particularly astounding, considering that websites like Twitter have a hard time carrying even their normal load on their server, but somehow MSNBC and other networks were able to make it work.

Just goes to show, some things are better left to the big boys.

Sure, television networks know that come November 4th they'll be out of cash and out of ideas, but until then at least one station plans on having a grand old end-of-the-world time:

On election night, ABC News will transform Times Square into an outdoor global viewing event, with thousands of people watching ABC News coverage of real time election results on three iconic screens — ABC's Super Sign, the enormous digital facade of NASDAQ and the 23-story high Reuters sign.

Cramazing! But couldn't ABC gone in on it with MSNBC, and Fox News, so from left to right screens you get, "Obama is winning" to "Obama is ahead" to "Ohio and Florida still too close to call."

Nate Silver is that baseball stats guy who's been all over the place lately for his website, FiveThirtyEight, where he runs some numbers into an algorithm he's created for the election, and it comes up Obama, every time. Seriously, look at the chart: In 95.8% of the simulations, Barack Obama is our new president.

Why should we listen to Nate Silver? The dude predicted last year's baseball stats almost completely on target. Also, he likes to run simulations to find out Wicker Park's best burrito, which is a noble, non-partisan cause if I've ever heard one.

Today, Nate wants to show us a little bit about the early voters results from the states that are allowing such things:

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Yikes, last week people were actually starting to believe John McCain was web-savvy, if indeed his campaign did buy the domain for VotefortheMilf.com. Concurrently, Barack Obama was losing ground with the web ads, and made an egregious decision to purchase an entire channel's worth of airtime for his campaign.

But! Obama is back on track with being the #2 candidate for the Internet (behind Ron Paul) with this nifty iPhone application promoting his campaign:

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McCain's camp was all whine-whine-whine to NBC News president Steve Capus over some comments Andrea Mitchell made on Meet the Press. On the subject of Saturday night's faith forum, Mitchell relayed Team Obama sentiments that there was foul play involved in the event — "that McCain may not have been in the Cone of Silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared." Someone call someone a cheater?

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sent a very strongly worded letter to NBC, which so often receives this sort of thing, chiding them for "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race."

This, even though Mitchell was doing that thing that journalists do — reporting — on what had already been stated by the Democrats, and gave full context to the quote. Except, whoops, now it looks like McCain wasn't in that Cone of Silence after all. Their bad, yo. So what is this magical cone that McCain was not in?

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CNN isn't implying that Obama is the literal devil, btw, they are just asking if that possibly could hypothetically maybe be the case? Why was this on CNN instead of Fox? Or did the station jump the shark with terrorist fist jab.

(H/t: 23/6)