The elections have been a pre-holiday feast for Joe and Mary, and this week’s show proves that the leftovers are sometimes the best part.

We started out the night by grabbing some election highlights from HRC Political Director Sam Smoot and Field Director Marty Rouse.

Turning to Florida, Joe talked to Congressman-Elect Ron Klein, who will represent Fort Lauderdale. Klein, who was the Democratic candidate in this hard-fought race against 13-term Republican incumbent Clay Shaw, has a long history of support for GLBT issues and was an HRC-endorsed candidate.

A.B. Stoddard of The Hill, who’s been a regular on “Hardball,” joined us for the big election overview. Then we turned our attention to the victories in Arizona and Massachusetts, where anti-marriage ballot questions were defeated. Steve May, co-chair of the Arizona Human Rights Fund, and Marc Solomon, campaign director of MassEquality, joined us to discuss both of these victories and what they mean for the future. Listen here.

One of our favorite guests, Mary Ann Akers of Roll Call, returned to give us some of the dirt on what’s abuzz in the halls of Congress. Listen here.

We wrapped up our election special with our own form of political hardball by pairing two of the most observant and opinionated viewers of this election cycle: Hilary Rosen, Democratic analyst for MSNBC, and Andrew Sullivan, conservative commentator and blogger of The Daily Dish and author of the new book The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back. Listen in now to part one or part two.

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