Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com and I discuss the ins and outs of push polls, specifically, the anti Hillary and Edwards Iowa calls that no one can seem to get to the bottom of. Last night — post ‘Cast — another push poll turned up on the Republican side. More on that here and here.
What to watch and listen for in tonight’s CNN Democratic debate: Presumably, by now, all the candidates know that the preferred pronounciation of the state by its residents is with a flat A, as in Nev-aaaaa-da, and not Nev-AW-da. There will be an important subtext, however, to everything that is said from the stage tonight. [...]
Tom Ricks is just back from Iraq and this is his report. Sounds about right to me. As a certified Iraq obsessive, I talk to some expert or other–military, diplomatic, U.S. or from the region–nearly every day and always ask the same question: how do we get from here to there, from chaos to stability? [...]
