It was so cold here four years ago, when the temperature here briefly spiked to 9 degrees or so, my colleague and road buddy Nancy Gibbs exclaimed: “It feels like Miami!” Today, it’s what your grandmother would have called “pneumonia weather,” with the temperatures so balmy that I spotted a network technician out in the [...]

Yeah, yeah….I know everyone’s crazed about the New Hampshire primary, but this New York Times piece about tensions between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems a significant bit of good news. The story, essentially, is that with the US intelligence community’s NIE on the Iranian nuclear program removing the threat of [...]

I just got a call from a conservative marketing consultant I know. He is in a panic. “I am in the midst of a major crisis with a lot of people,” he said. “Hillary Clinton is going to die today. Do you know what that means for conservative fundraising all over America?” I do. Big [...]

Have some downtime today while my two candidates (McCain and Romney) drink coffee and recharge their batteries (as it were). Sitting with a conservative opinion journalist, talk turned to Hillary. “I can’t believe the glee with which the press corps treating the Hillary implosion,” he said. “You know, I’ve always thought that you understand people [...]

Watch Scherer predict… in bed! UPDATE: Or just watch it here:

I have a new theory about New Hampshire primary politics. The most powerful player is … the fire marshal. Fellow swamper Michael Scherer, videographer Caitlin Thompson and I went up to Concord yesterday afternoon to catch Mike Huckabee at an event where they were going to name a hamburger (a Huckaburger) in his honor. When [...]

As the good citizens of New Hampshire turn out in what are expected to be record numbers on this balmy winter’s day, a couple of notes from the end of the trail: – I was traveling with the McCain campaign yesterday — part of it with the candidate on the Straight Talk Express, the other [...]

Yeah, that’s gonna work.