Please excuse the tardiness. Today’s ‘Cast stems from the event Jay mentioned below: it was called “Women Voters and the Right Guy.” I have to be honest and admit that before I heard about the event, I hadn’t realized that there were women in prominent public roles in all four of the major campaigns: Jill [...]

Karen’s post below correctly captures the fascination the DC political-journalistic axis has with Hillary and the “gender card,” and the almost universal agreement that it was a mistake. How big mistake, that’s what people debate. I’m struck that women seem to think it’s a bigger mistake than men. At both the GOP panel I attended [...]

Joe Biden issued a short statement today through his Senate office about his telephone conversation with Pakistan President Pervez Mursharraf. It was a real-world example of what Biden is constantly trying to tell voters on the hustings and in the debates (on the rare occasion he’s asked a question): to wit, as chairman of the [...]

At a National Press Club lunch featuring top women staffers from all the major GOP presidential campaigns, one line rang out above all others — at least to the ears of our Ana Marie Cox, who was in attendance. Ana fired an email from her table alerting us that Karen Hanretty of Fred Thompson’s campaign [...]

Are we ever going to hear the end of last week’s Democratic debate? One of the flimsier arguments we have heard lately is President Clinton’s suggestion yesterday that the criticism that his wife got over her confusing and confused response to a question about granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants was tantamount to swiftboating: “I [...]

Barack Obama may be struggling to peel Democrats away from Hillary Clinton’s camp, but there is one segment of voters with which Obama appears to have, both statistically and anecdotally, a considerable advantage over Clinton and his other primary campaign opponents: disaffected Republicans. Jay Newton-Small just posted a smart piece on Obama’s appeal to erstwhile [...]

Let me just be the last person to tell you that Ron Paul raised a s***load of money yesterday. I was just on tv talking about this and Scarborough asked one of the other panelists — Matthew Continetti — if the Republican party should be talking Paul seriously. Continetti said that he wasn’t sure if [...]

Remember Julie Myers, the then-36-year-old who was nominated to be head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (I.C.E.) back in late 2005 despite having virtually no experience managing a large bureaucracy and little background handling immigration or customs issues? A former federal prosectuor who had worked on Ken Starr’s independent counsel staff when he [...]

Dana Milbank’s funny/scathing/sad account of White House squirming over the situation in Pakistan is a must-read this morning. Don’t miss this interesting detail from yesterday’s 40-minute briefing by an unnamed, high-ranking White House official: …Bush aides must have realized this was not something to be proud of. Before the official briefed reporters from behind the [...]