When I first saw this in my mail box, I was really excited — and a little surprised — to see what, exactly, Biden might have to say about today’s big Huckism (“Mormons believe Jesus and the Devil are brothers”). I mean, Joe Biden, expert on foreign policy AND theology!
Mark Blumenthal has a long, wonky, but worthwhile post examining the relative strategies and quality of Iowa pollsters. Key finding: The point here is not so much to guess at which poll has the “right” demographic mix, the right percentage of first-time caucus goers or even about how many Iowans will caucus. Again, knowing with [...]
With apologies to Karen… The rumors of discord in the Clinton campaign. Well, yeah, things seem to be going slightly south–but just slightly. Obama has, if not mo, then minimentum…although his trajectory is especially surprising in New Hampshire, where the Clintons’ long history and the local Shaheen machine seemed to put HRC in a strong [...]
This one, back on A4 of the Washington Post, suggests that waterboarding is not just being used as a questionably effective tool for intelligence gathering: The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA’s aggressive interrogation [...]
