By and overwhelming majority our readers guessed that the photo we posted of the USC Politico.com conference panelist's footwear HAD to be democrats. Of our readers that guessed 47% said that they were democrats. There was a tie at 26% as to whether they were republicans or journalism students.

Nope. Republicans. All three of them. From right to left those are the feet of Adam Mendelsohn former Deputy Chief of Staff for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, GOP strategist Todd Beyer and Michael DuHaime political director of McCain/Palin 2008.

How cute, they dress how their party's economic policies effect the country!

Yes. It's a new day in America. There's change afoot. And it's happening (ahem) from the ground up.