The new ad that Jay links to below seems an acknowledgment that Barack Obama has decided to double down on his economic message, which simply hasn’t been getting through to voters. No doubt, this is partly attributable to the sludge tornado unleashed by the McCain campaign. But it’s also attributable to the Obama campaign’s own [...]

It’s not quite one of Ross Perot’s 30-minute infomercials from the 1992 campaign, but Obama’s new, two-minute ad featuring just him talking directly into the camera seems like a bow in the direction of those who argue that voters want to hear the candidates talk about what they would do as president rather than what [...]

I am advised that this is not a hoax. As the political impact becomes clear, Swampland readers might want to take some time to make sure they have a tricky password on their own email accounts. UPDATE: Wired.com’s blog “Threat Level” has the scoop. Nothing of a scandalous nature has been posted online: Vice-presidential candidate [...]

Glen Johnson, AP veteran and no-bull reporter par excellence, takes advantage of the new ethos over at the venerable wire service in a piece examining how John McCain promotes himself as a both an experienced Washington insider and a reform-minded outsider — in nearly the same breath.

I’m, like, a total fanboy for the Constitution. I liked it before it signed to a major label. Turns out I have this in common with Chief Justice John Roberts, who gave this kind of adorable interview today to WP’s “Kid Post”: What do you think is the coolest part of the Constitution that people [...]

At the bottom of today’s Washington Post story about Charlie Rangel’s refusal to step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is this paragraph: Rangel has said he would hire a forensic accountant to untangle his financial records, which contain a variety of errors. And yet he still wants to keep writing [...]