The Herald reports Republican Jack E. Robinson was outside Park Street last night, calling for the feds to pour enough money into the MBTA to eliminate fares and to spend $3 billion on a bullet train to Springfield.

Debates are the best ways for voters to get to know candidates for office — especially when those candidates have never served in a specific office before. Especially when they are not well-known to the electorate.

This video follows US Senate candidate Mike Capuano one recent Saturday, October 24 from his home in Somerville to campaign events in West Roxbury and Milford.

It's noon to 1:30 p.m. at BU. You can watch it live.

WBUR reports on KennedySeat.com, the anonymously penned (um, typed) Web site that's keeping tabs on the Senate race like nobody's business. Reporter Monica Brady-Myerov gets the writer to dish a few details about himself (he's 29 and worked on Beacon Hill) and reports the site has put the fear of God into at least some people working on campaigns:

... But [the anonymity] is also a concern, according to an aide on one of the Senate campaigns who doesn't want to be named for fear of crossing the influential Web site. ...

Which gets a total of 550 visitors a day, most of them, apparently, campaign insiders.

Steve Garfield tweeted a question at the four Democratic candidates. Now to see if any answer.

PACs are evil, except they're not.

Kennedyseat.com reminds us the four Democratic candidates for Senate will debate between 9 and 10 a.m. on WTKK.

It's not so much that Mike Capuano changed his mind on health care and that abortion ban as that he was blasting Coakley for taking the same position he adopted that has some riled and puzzled.

KennedySeat.com provides all the links related to last night's debate and other Senate-ish stuff.