See any similarities between this and this (or this)? Maybe it was unintentional. Yeah. Sure it was. ALSO: A tweaked slogan and borrowed logo design will only go so far. By the Republican convention, McCain will need to figure out how to read better off a teleprompter, lest he fall flat in the wake of [...]

The Los Angeles Times has a powerful video interview on its website with David Steiner, who was a young campaign aide to Robert Kennedy in 1968 and was in the ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel 40 years ago tonight. To Steiner, RFK’s death “was like the death of baseball and Thomas Jefferson and Betsy Ross [...]

As the cable channels keep their laserlike focus on Hillary Clinton today, one of the more delicate rituals of presidential politics is taking place over at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Veteran Democratic operative Paul Tewes, who was the state director of Barack Obama’s spectacularly successful Iowa operation, is being introduced to the staff there. [...]

On The End of the Road and K-Y jelly.

Very interesting post by Jake Tapper over at ABC about the “private and friendly” conversation (that, apparently, was neither) between Barack Obama and Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor yesterday. Democrats will almost certainly add to their numbers in the Senate this November, which means they will no longer need Lieberman, the self-described “Independent Democrat,” [...]

The first official, on the record call for a joint town hall came around May 10, from Mark McKinnon, McCain’s exiting media man, who said that the campaign was considering asking for them. “The town hall meeting is John’s best format,” McKinnon said. “He’s a natural campaigner up close with the public. That would test [...]

David Brooks introduced a wonderful phrase Sunday, in the round table discussion at the end of ABC’s “This Week.” The conversation had turned to John McCain’s embarrassing flub last week, when he falsely said the U.S. had “drawn down” troop levels in Iraq to pre-surge levels. Afterwards, the McCain campaign tried to get around his [...]

Reports of Budge Sperling’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In a post yesterday about Rep. Tom Davis, I erroneously referred to “the late Budge Sperling”, who created and for years hosted the Sperling/Monitor newsmaker breakfasts that are a Washington institution. As David Cook of the Monitor kindly informed me this morning, Budge, 92, retired from [...]