Again, I’ll have full extended coverage tomorrow on Election Night, so stop by…

• The pro-equality side in Maine released their closing ad over the weekend, and the campaign got a boost from a favorable editorial in the New York Times. They raised a lot of late money from the netroots today as well. This will be a nailbiter.

• Law and order gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie had a couple mix-ups in the final days of the campaign, when he ripped off a Monty Python sketch and a stock footage library without compensation.

• This didn’t get much attention, but Julie Appleby noticed a really important piece in the Senate Finance Committee bill – to keep down subsidy costs, the calculation shifts from a cap on costs as a percentage of income in the first year, to a subsidy as a percentage of the premium in future years. This means that the later years could be extremely unaffordable for individuals, as there is no cap on increases in insurance rates.

• Turns out that PhRMa responded to my story on front group 60 Plus – right in the comments. Senior VP Ken Johnson claims that PhRMa hasn’t funded 60 Plus since 2004 and “are not involved in any of the group’s current advocacy efforts.” Of course, that only accounts for the trade group, not any of their members.

• This video of a rape victim confronting David Vitter over his vote against the Franken amendment on shielding defense contractors from rape is extremely compelling and really damaging, especially the moment where he walks away.

• Today the President congratulated Hamid Karzai on his “victory” in the Afghan elections, and he said he pressed Karzai on corruption and would measure the Afghan government in deeds and not words. There was no discussion of whether the election conclusion paves the way for a decision on troops in the country, though John McCain immediately called for one.

• It turns out that Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John McCain’s chief economist on the Presidential campaign, is out of work. And his COBRA is running out. And he has a pre-existing condition. So he’ll probably be uninsured in a matter of weeks. “I worry about where I go next in the way many Americans do,” said Holtz-Eakin to The Washington Post.

• The current House health care bill would fold the Children’s Health Insurance Program into the exchanges, eliminating the popular and successful program. Children’s health advocates are alarmed. Jay Rockefeller stepped in to change this in the Senate Finance Committee bill, so I would expect a fight in conference.

• Net neutrality supporters are not pleased about some loose language in the FCC’s discussion draft.

• Looks like Barney Frank responded favorably to one of the biggest criticisms with the “too big to fail” legislation in the House Financial Services Committee, and will change the bill to address them.

• This hasn’t stopped Dylan Ratigan from teeing off on the Obama Administration for continuing to keep Wall Street fat and happy, in particular Timothy Geithner. And Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) agrees with him.

• I found it interesting that Organizing for America, Barack Obama’s campaign arm at the DNC, urged supporters to call Senators to pass a climate and energy bill today, of all days.

• Harry Reid went into combat mode today, deploying some snark at Republicans for failing to develop a health care bill of their own:

While the two health care reform plans that are serving as the main building blocks for the merged bill have been publicly available for quite some time, I would note that the Republican leadership’s health care plan remains a secret, unless perhaps it does not exist.

Needless to say, I fully understand if your plan is still under development, and would not presume to suggest that you publicly share draft legislative text for even an individual element of your plan, let alone an entire bill, before it is finalized.

However, as soon as a comprehensive Republican alternative is complete, I hope you will be willing to immediately make it public. I am sure you agree that the American people deserve the opportunity to fully review both parties’ health reform plans before we begin this important debate.

• While Iran dithers on whether to accept a uranium processing deal from the West, we could see some major protests in the country come Wednesday. Also, one reformer criticized Ali Khamenei to his face in a long speech over the weekend.