Do you remember the billionaire Robert Johnson, the guy who brought up Barack Obama’s drug use at a Clinton rally on Sunday? Do you remember how he called anyone who accused him of saying what he said “irresponsible and incorrect”? Do you remember how Hillary Clinton said at Tuesday’s debate that Johnson had admitted his comments were …

Just got the traveling press schedule for the Romnibus, and he’s leaving South Carolina today….never to return. He’ll be competing in Nevada instead, mostly likely to get another gold, though again in a sport that no one cares about. Curling, maybe.

Meanwhile, Huck and McCain are duking it out there in an increasingly nasty way — …

Every candidate in the presidential race is promising it. But what does “change” really mean to voters? Gallup asked them, in a poll out today, and found some interesting answers. The most significant one is that “change” is not a gauzy concept to voters, but rather, a to-do list:

First and foremost, it is clear from these results that

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In this week’s magazine, occasional Swampland Intern Michael Duffy and I look at the growing role of the economy as an issue in the presidential race, and why this downturn presents a particularly difficult challenge for the contenders. (The print magazine also has a charticle, put together by Jeninne Lee-St. John, that outlines some of …

Mitt Romney: He would not be a contender without being much richer than everyone else.

Rudy Giuliani: He would not be a contender without having led New York in the weeks after September 11, 2001, a fact that still defines him six years later.

John McCain: He would not be a contender without having forgiven George W. Bush after the …

Brief thoughts on what might happen in South Carolina, brought to you by the baggage claim area of Terminal A.

Has put up his first TV ads in his Minnesota Senate campaign, this one featuring an absolutely adorable endorsement from someone who knew him when. I’m not at all sure that Mr. Horton, my fourth grade teacher, would endorse me for anything: