Just under the wire, Dorothy Wickenden and her insightful colleagues have contributed their last (I assume) edition of the “Campaign Trail” podcast before the bulk of the votes are cast tomorrow (absentee voters, of which I am one, still have about a week to get their ballots in). It’s an unusually loose session, and a lot of fun: it emerges that the trio has a common history at The New Republic during the Reagan-Bush years. (Hertzberg was editor, Wickenden managing editor, and Toobin frequent contributor.)

Which leaves us with a question: Wickenden closes out the podcast with a reference to a post-election episode of the podcast—I should hope so!—but what is the fate of the series once the “campaign” part of the title ceases to apply? Will it revert to a more mellow podcast devoted to politics in general, or will they pack it up until late 2011? (Or perhaps late 2010, for the midterms.) I could see merit in either decision (while selfishly contending that the process of laying down the foundations of the post-Bush era demands as much, if not more, attention by our nation’s podcasters). We’ll find out soon enough!