The most exciting moment of live-hydration in the history of political television.

[h/t @ditzkoff] 

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Our State of the Union live chat (complete with livestream) is up and running! Come join our awesome political columnists: John Avlon, Michelle Cottle, Mark McKinnon, Michael Tomasky, and Howard Kurtz (plus your humble social media editors)!

Michelle Obama just greeted her guests!

Last time I checked, women made up more than half the electorate. A political party that so easily allows itself to get painted as hating on the ladies is a party on the road to extinction.

Washington reporter Michelle Cottle wonders if House Republicans are about to get serious about becoming a more open party, and reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

Tell me what terrorist attacks you would have let go forward because you didn’t want to be a mean and nasty fella? Are you going to trade the lives of a number of people because you want to preserve your … your honor? Or are you going to do your job, do what’s required—first and foremost, your responsibility to safeguard America and the lives of its citizens? Now, given a choice between doing what we did, or backing off and saying, ‘We know you know that there’s a terrorist attack against the United States, but we’re not going to force you to tell us what it is because it might create a bad image for us,’ well, that’s not a close call for me.

Dick Cheney is unapologetic in a new Sundance documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney

I’d certainly like to aim to increase the level of disclosure at 538 going forward. Sometimes what happens is that I have best intentions to write a super detailed, 5000-word methodology post, and then some senate candidate does or says something stupid, and I get caught up in the news cycle and it gets forgotten about. Which is a pretty lame excuse, I know. At the same time, 538 is a commercial business and the ability to license proprietary intellectual property is a fairly big part of how I make my living, so the disclosure would probably stop short of outright releasing source code or my database in most cases.

Nate Silver is doing a Reddit AMA right now. You should tune in.

Introducing the New Members of the 113th Congress

Photo hunt! Rep. Pelosi’s office distributed a (poorly?) photoshopped photograph of all the Democratic women of Congress. Those top four weren’t actually there when the picture was taken.

Mitt’s going to meet a friend for lunch.

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Republicans’ Committee Chair(MEN).

Another thing that’s awful —> What radical positions these men have taken.

This election was more fun than 2008 because Sarah Palin was just a caricature. She was a slow-moving varmint. Mitt Romney, after a lifetime of wanting to be president, was like a thoroughbred dressage horse—and as an admirer of all things equestrian, I found him more enjoyable to lasso.

Rob Delaney is in this week’s Newsweek writing about—what else?—the campaign!