I’m here at the bar of the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Iowa, where I’ll be doing what I’m calling a “lazy live-blogging” of tonight’s Democratic and Republican debates on ABC. I’m fried from five days on the trail and I have a feature to start writing, but first I need to watch this bit of political theater—and so do you, if you’re a political junkie.

You should know the drill by now: Send me comments through the liveblogging widget, and if they’re worthy I’ll drop them into the liveblog in progress. I need your comments now more than ever, Slog readers! The trail has turned my mind to mush.

UPDATE: Well, that was a big mess. Something’s bad with either the liveblogging app or my internet connection. Sorry. Liveblog over.