US blogger Markos Moulitsas has written his latest column for Guardian Unlimited. He writes:
It was barely two years ago that a band of obsessive political bloggers set their sights on the nascent presidential campaign, positioning themselves for a front-row seat to the big show. It's hard to believe that the end is near.
Bush's approval ratings were in the 70% range when many of us wrote our first words of dissent. Bush seemed invincible, riding his Afghanistan victory and a terror-induced, panic-stricken nation to stratospheric approval ratings. Bush had all the political capital he needed to drive his political agenda and sail smoothly to a second term. Except his agenda consisted of a single item: Iraq.
Read on here and check out Guardian Unlimited's special report on the US elections here.