In the post below, I raised the question of whether or not the McCain campaign made a mistake by sending out an attack article on Obama to reporters this morning. I published the post before a McCain aide was able to get back to me to answer that question. (Such are the perils of the blog-cycle. My old newspaper editors would be …

Three weeks ago, John McCain took a strong public stand against those of his allies who would attack Barack Obama for his middle name. “I want to disassociate myself with any disparaging remarks,” McCain told the press, after a radio talk show host distastefully used Obama’s middle name Hussein.

Then this week, McCain’s campaign …

Earlier today, Eric Woolson, the former Iowa campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, sent out an informal email to some people, including a bunch of reporters. He had meant it as a funny thing that we would all keep private. But he made a horrific error. He got funny. To wit:

It comes as no surprise to most of you who know me: My office is

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Public officials do bad things. They take bribes, sleep with prostitutes, make racially insensitive jokes and take positions over which you, the voter, can justifiably be upset. These are first-degree political sins committed by first-degree political sinners that lead to first-degree political scandals. And they are clearly …

Thanks to the Internet, SNL no longer has a monopoly on political sketch comedy. This is from an LA-based troupe called the Public Service Administration.

If anyone knows a similarly good sketch attacking the Obama campaign, let me know in the comments, and in the interest of equal time, I will post.

Also: Geraldine Ferraro resigned …

Over the course of my public life, I have insisted, I believe correctly, that people, regardless of their position or power, take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself. For this reason, I am resigning from the office of governor.

Full statement here.

Wherever John McCain goes, he rails against pork barrel spending, including the millions of dollars that the federal government spends to study the DNA of grizzly bears. “I don’t know if it was a paternity issue or criminal,” the Republican nominee deadpans. And the bear scientists never fight back. They have just silently taken the …

The thing about a viral video is you have to want to watch it. Unlike a television ad, which arrives without consent, the web spot requires a mouse click, or an email from a friend telling you this thing is not a total waste of time.

With this in mind, judge the success of the latest offering from the McCain campaign, a two-minute …

For those who decided to sleep through the time change, here is what Hillary Clinton Campaign surrogate Ed Rendell said this morning on Meet the Press:

TIM RUSSERT: Governor Rendell, if, in fact, Barack Obama goes to the convention in Colorado in August with the most elected delegates, having won more contests and a higher popular

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I didn’t mention the Huck-a-burger, or the terrifying Huck-a-flights, or the hard drinking ways of the Huck-a-staff, but here is my story looking back at the Mike Huckabee that was, and will no doubt be again.

Victor Bout, one of the world’s most famous and wanted arms traffickers, was arrested Thursday in Thailand. The guy has been tied to efforts to fuel blood-soaked wars in Angola and Liberia, Afghanistan and Columbia, and many others. He has long been blacklisted by the United States Treasury Department and signaled out by the United …

So much ink is spilled interpreting the race and sex dynamics of the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton often wins women, Barack Obama inevitably wins blacks. Identity politics lives on. But my former boss, Salon.com’s Walter Shapiro, points to another demographic trend that came into striking relief in the Ohio exit polls: The age

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I have a story up today about the remarkable two-month run of luck that made John McCain the Republican nominee. To wit:

Almost everything broke his way: Mike Huckabee won Iowa, crippling the powerhouse campaign of Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani abandoned New Hampshire, allowing his moderate supporters to shift to McCain. Fred Thompson

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