Here’s one thing you need to know about John McCain. He’s always been the coolest kid in school. He was the brat who racked up demerits at the Naval Academy. He was the hot dog pilot who went back to the skies weeks after almost dying in a fire on the U.S.S. Forrestal. His first wife was a model. His second wife was a rich girl, 17 years …

The Edwards campaign does a little jig:

From: Eric Schultz

Sent: Sat 1/5/2008 9:58 PM

Subject: our dream headline

R.I.P., The Clinton Era, 9:34 P.M. Est.

Wow.

Get your kids out and put them in front of the TV: The Clinton Era officially ended at 9:34 p.m. EST when Edwards paired with Obama to bury Hillary as a non-agent of

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This may be the moment we will look back on and say “that’s when she lost.”

I’m obviously not doing my traditional all-snark, all-the-time tonight. Others are doing more rapid live-blogging than I, and if you need quicker fixes, I recommend:

Amblogger

The Josh

Their Hottnesses

Slogette

On to the Dems!

And, oh, hai: If you have liveblogging recs, please leave them in the comments! Kthnxbai!

Huckabee just said the way to obtain energy independence is to offer a million billion* dollar prize to the first person to invent a car that can get 100 mpg. Between that and his gimmicky “fair tax” idea, most of his policies sound less like policies and more like game shows.

*ONE billlliiiiiiionnnnn dollars. Thanks for the correx.

Fred just came to McCain’s defense and tweaked Romney for having changed positions on immigration, and then Rudy piled on on Mitt as well (arguing that the program both he and McCain have endorsed is “not amnesty”). I’ve long heard from other campaigns that Romney is the only candidate that is personally disliked by the other candidates, …

is not exactly riveting or enlightening. Everyone here in the filing center seems to be asking one question:

How are the Redskins doing?

CW for months has been that independents will abandon Republicans (i.e., McCain) for the Democrats (i.e., Obama) and may not match up with, you know, facts on the ground. From the latest UNH poll, taken during and after the Iowa caucuses:

Undeclared voters, often referred to as Independents, can vote in either the Democratic or

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Just checking Romney’s notes:

Mitt Romney (R-MA) predicted an ’08 begin to the withdrawal of troops from Iraq on Monday. When questioned about the war in the Iraq, Gov. Romney described his three-staged vision for the war, namely, surge, support, and standby. According to Gov. Romney’s plan, after the current surge phase is completed,

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Within the campaign, his pseudo-incumbent strategy is being blamed for what happened in Iowa.

Clinton campaign just sent this out:

Memo from Mark Penn:

Where Is The Bounce?

Two polls that had the race within a few points before the Iowa caucuses have the race tied after the Iowa caucuses.

In today’s CNN/WMUR poll, Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama are tied at 33 percent – their last two polls had Hillary up 4 points

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