Good morning, Washington. Make it to the polls yesterday? If so, we hope you did so before the sun went down — it got cold in a hurry last night, as the area rapidly moved from warmer-than-usual temps to colder-than-usual ones. CapitalWeather is saying that the weekend should be warmer, at least. Election 2007: The results are in, and it looks like it was a good night for Virginia’s Democrats. The Dems picked up…

Today we mark four years since the war in Iraq began. Without debating the wisdom of the war itself (or lack thereof), the U.S. has suffered some 3,204 casualties to date. Among those casualties are residents from the District, Maryland and Virginia — 3, 60 and 91, respectively. DCist would like to recognize their service to their country in what little way we can — by printing their names and sending our condolences to their…

Enjoy today as temperatures will rise up near 70 degrees. It’d be a great day for a lunchtime walk or extended lunch, if you’re so lucky. Perhaps a stroll past the Robert A. Taft memorial on the Senate side of the Capitol grounds, as seen in this DCist photo taken early Tuesday evening. And speaking of weather, Dan Stillman at Capital Weather questions why Reagan National Airport is D.C.’s official weather observation post and…

Before the rise of the Bush family, the Tafts of Ohio were the most successful political dynasty in the Republican Party. Along with the Democratic Kennedys and flexible Rockefellers, Roosevelts and Adamses, they remain one of the top political families in U.S. history. They are also the oldest still-active family, and longest-running direct descendancy, stretching from Secretary of War Alphonso Taft (1876) to current Ohio Gov. Bob Taft II. The middlemost member of this line,…

Happy Friday, everybody. The weather today will be more of what we’ve seen this week: partly cloudy, highs in the 40s. The photo above shows promotional materials for the Washington Nationals in a display case at Buffalo Billiards, where baseball supporters held a pep rally last week. We’ve posted a few photos from our happy hour last night. Yeah, More Baseball: The Post reports today that Baseball President Robert A. DuPuy has rejected a…