The Year Democrats Actually Did Something Maybe

Monday hits like a ton of bricks, so real fast, the five things you need to know:

• Tina Brown's Daily Beast is live. So that's where former Vanity Fair Q&A-er Kevin Sessums has been hiding!

• Politico is predicting that the Democrats could fill 60 Senate seats after the election.

• Recession update: no one is buying anything.

• And it's not just the U.S. economy. Banks around the world are looking flaky and global markets were extremely diffy last night, setting the stage for a scary U.S. market opening today.

• Today is the voter registration for a bunch o' states like Philadelphia and Ohio, Florida and Indiana. Guess who registered? Democrats.