If you're looking for the best online coverage of today's candidate visits in Tacoma and Seattle, check out the Politcal Buzz. It's like a machine. It's not even noon, and there have been 19 posts today.

Plus, Gritizen Niki is writing for them, if you miss her.

Here's a sample from Niki at the Clinton rally:

A rep from the American Nurses Association is here.

You know how some people pronounce it "Warshington?" Well, she's one of them.

She said she was glad to have come from Wa(r)shington, D.C. to the great state of Wa(r)shington.

A hush spread across the crowd, followed by audible giggles.

OK, now she's talking policy... gotta go.

Update: The fire marshall is estimating 6,000 people are here. I'm estimating about 2,000 of them giggled.

You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a scoop like this.

The major golf tournament in 2015 is expected to draw 65,000 people a day and fill 10,000 hotel rooms for nearly a week, with an estimated economic impact of $100 million.

Is this the best thing that's ever happened to Tacoma?
My other question: Where's everyone going to sleep?

"It's like hosting the Super Bowl for four days in a row,” Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg told The News Tribune on Thursday.

"Bringing the U.S. Open here would be the biggest event in this area since the 1962 World's Fair," Ladenburg has said before.

So what's your hyperbolic comparison?

Quick: If we all start practicing really hard, maybe some of us can qualify to play in the tournament by the time it rolls around.