stockula

The way it works is that you submit a piece, then it goes to an administrative holding area until an editor approves the piece. After that point, it's either published immediately (which is rare these days for politics since there are a lot of submissions) or is placed into the newswire queue where it will come on to the newswire at a specific time. If you look closely, you'll see that almost all of the politics posts hit the wire exactly on the hour - that's why.

It's funny you should ask about your post, I was just in the middle of editing it when I got your comment. Don't worry, it should come up either late this afternoon or early this evening.