John McCain must be causing Mitt Romney some serious heartburn in New Hampshire. How else to explain Romney’s magnificently absurd claim that the recently-reported push polls attacking Romney’s Mormonism are somehow the fault of…that’s right, John McCain — more specifically, the campaign finance reform law known as McCain-Feingold, which passed in 2002. Politico’s Jonathan Martin [...]

It’s not getting so much attention today, maybe because it happened nearly 2,100 miles away from the Cox Pavilion, at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Along party lines, the committee voted out a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization that does NOT include a provision granting legal immunity to the telecommunications companies that participated [...]

I’m not good at the kind of scoring that people like our own Mark Halperin do so well after these debates. I can never tell who won or who lost. The fireworks seem to be getting the headlines this morning, and the general consensus is that Hillary Clinton did what she needed to do to [...]