PowerPoint is the soccer mom of 2007:

And more of me.

Over at the Chicago Tribune blog (which is called “The Swamp,” and was here first, which might be something they should take up with the High Sheriffs), Jason George takes a look at Rudy Giuliani’s latest ad and discovers: Rudy Guiliani’s newest television ad brims with some of his favorite campaign themes: the threat of [...]

Bill Clinton unveiled a new pitch to voters in Ames, IA, today, arguing that his wife has been a force for change throughout her life. The new theme comes as Hillary Clinton tries to steady her campaign and halt the surge — in Iowa and elsewhere — of Barack Obama, who has been selling himself [...]

Friend of Swampland Mark Blumenthal takes a look at another set of possible “push polls” in Iowa. And while he decides that it’s almost impossible to tell who’s behind them, their existence does tell us something about the race: The first is about the blurring of the lines between traditional polling and telemarketing. Campaigns have [...]

The Weekly Standard editorial team may yet have a soft spot for McCain….

Horse-race polls are the highly addictive opiate that political obsessives crave. But they tell us only the “what” of an election, not the “why.” And so Time decided to invest its polling dollars into a different kind of survey — one that dissects what’s on voters minds, what they say matters to them and how [...]

My post on this subject last week sparked a lively and substantive discussion among our commenters. As promised, the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn–whose writing, for my money, is must-read for anyone who really wants to understand both the policy and the politics of health care–has returned to the subject. He takes a look at Barack [...]

Of the numbers Karen posted, attendance is possibly the least important metric of them all. What matters the most — and what these rallies were really about — was culling a universe of potential voters that no other candidate has. Pundits who pontificated as to whether Oprah would change people’s minds about Obama missed the [...]