Wild Card/Thursday — 11.5.09

First, I should apologize to the many bloggers in the HBO Blogosphere for not highlighting them as I usually do in my daily roundups. I’ve been so slammed by the election, election results, and election follow-up that I didn’t have time to do adequate roundups. I’ll make up for that today. Secondly, I appreciate the many new commenters and many new blurkers attracted here by the local elections. Stick around. We have fun year round. Finally, you might be interested to know that HBO numbers have been over 10,000 page-views per work day since Tuesday, Oct. 27, and over 9,400 since Wednesday, Oct. 21, topping off 14,147 (w/6777 unique views) on election night. That means (brace yourself for blatant advertisement) that the 4 candidates who bought those tile ads on HBO got quite a bang for their bucks ($100 for 10 days or $10 per day). The numbers will come down somewhat. But it appears that this blog is on course to hit 2M page-views for the year. Now, for your daily Wild Card …