SwampCast: I Sort of Heart Huckabee

A look at Mike Huckabee’s improved standing in the polls, and the challenges he still faces: (Delayed about 5 hours due to technical difficulties. Sorry)

“I Read It in an Email”

That’s what one nice old lady in Iowa told me when I asked her how she was so sure Barack Obama was a Muslim. “My Right-Wing Dad” is an archive of such shady emails; right now it’s just grimly amusing, but I could see it developing into a politics-centered snopes, perhaps specializing in the kind [...]

Hillary['s] Soldiers On

With the confirmation that the Iowa Democratic caucuses will be held especially early this cycle, NBC reports that Hillary Clinton is adding 100 more staffers in Iowa — and Ambinder notes that they’re collecting some of these staffers via Craigslist. Insert “Now Bill’s not the only one setting up casual encounters” joke here. In further [...]

To Our Swampland Commenters…

A while back, we told you we were planning to move to a registration system. Since then, with the troll incursions here getting worse and worse, many of you have been wondering what happened to that idea. We are happy to announce, it is here–finally! Try it out. The High Sheriffs promise it is quick, [...]