It’s true that national polls this early in a race don’t tell us much about who’s going to win. But the polls testing the Republican presidential candidates do say something pretty amazing about the state of the GOP. Rudy Giuliani, while still usually coming in first (but now, occasionally, second) in the national polls, has [...]

They’re bringing out the cots again in the Senate. These guys have offices, with BIG COMFY COUCHES, that are about a five-minute walk from the Senate floor. They have 15 minutes to get to the floor when the buzzers go off for a vote or a quorum call (though in practice the parliamentarian will hold [...]

Despite the words of my esteemed coSwamplander below, who is correct about the usual Drudgery, I suspect that Elizabeth Edwards–resuming her designated hitter role in the campaign–is not being all that sympathetic to Ms. Senator Clinton. This is not sympathetic: The question is, what does her campaign tell you about how she’ll govern? And I’m [...]

Our colleague Jay Newton-Small writes about the Democrats’ real agenda for tonight (besides makeovers, ghost stories and playing pictionary): Is the filibuster about dictating military policy to the President or is it about convincing their GOP colleagues that they’re on the losing side of history? Levin cites a different historical precedent: how growing Republican opposition [...]

The news that Barack Obama has been counting all the people who buy his t-shirts and bumper stickers as being among his record 258,000 campaign donors is causing something of a stir today. Frequent Swampland commenter Paul Lukasiak weighs in, taking a little jab (though we love him anyway) at yours truly: It turns out [...]

I had to hunt to find the quote that the Drudge Report cites, the one where Elizabeth Edwards says that Hillary Clinton is “behaving like a man.” I had to hunt because it doesn’t exist. Here’s the relevant passage, the misquoted part in bold: Look, I’m sympathetic, because when I worked as a lawyer, I [...]

This from the AP: And the leading Republican presidential candidate is … none of the above. The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney, and no one candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner among Christian [...]

Reporters scouring the second-quarter reports have come up with all kinds of tidbits, some telling and others merely entertaining.: The Washington Post says Barack Obama has a bigger payroll than Hillary Clinton ($3.3 million for the quarter, compared with $2.6 million). But his communications guy is making only half what hers is, and his campaign [...]