It’s not getting so much attention today, maybe because it happened nearly 2,100 miles away from the Cox Pavilion, at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Along party lines, the committee voted out a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization that does NOT include a provision granting legal immunity to the …

I’m not good at the kind of scoring that people like our own Mark Halperin do so well after these debates. I can never tell who won or who lost. The fireworks seem to be getting the headlines this morning, and the general consensus is that Hillary Clinton did what she needed to do to stop the bleeding. But this was also the debate that …

Jason Linkins the Wonkette that never was. And tonight, he more than made up for any funny that didn’t happen elsewhere.

Q: Hillary, was Ross Perot right?

Me: Jesus. WHAT A QUESTION. I CAN DIE NOW. Wolf Blitzer has asked the dumbest question of ALL TIME. This probably fulfilled some dark prophecy or something.

Part One, Part the Deux, …

Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com and I discuss the ins and outs of push polls, specifically, the anti Hillary and Edwards Iowa calls that no one can seem to get to the bottom of. Last night — post ‘Cast — another push poll turned up on the Republican side. More on that here and here.

What to watch and listen for in tonight’s CNN Democratic debate:

Presumably, by now, all the candidates know that the preferred pronounciation of the state by its residents is with a flat A, as in Nev-aaaaa-da, and not Nev-AW-da.

There will be an important subtext, however, to everything that is said from the stage tonight. As Nevada …

Today, an experiment in mash-ups. Seeing as how Rudy has been rather free with the facts in his previous radio ads, we decided to scrutinize pretty much every statement in his new television ad. I’ll give him this much: he’s learned not to use specific statistics.

A note on sources: My statistics on big cities and crime come from …

Ben Smith at Politico is on this story like wet on water, he’s even covered the angle that the firm doing the polling, Central Marketing, is connected an Edwards pollster:

I’m told, more directly, by a source familiar with the arrangements, that they’ve done calling for the Global Strategy Group, the firm of Edwards pollster Harrison

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Some of the most storied rivalries on Capitol Hill are between Senators of the same party who represent the same state. (New Jersey Democrats Frank Lautenberg and Bob Torricelli had a famous feud.) But few have ever gone on so long as that of former Ole Miss cheerleaders Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, who once even ran against each other …

Is Barack Obama the victim of yet another internet rumor? This time, the allegation isn’t that he’s a Muslim, but that’s he’s engaging in the icky sport of “push polling.” (Everybody now: “But what about the politics of hope?!?”) A blogger on John Edward’s wrote about receiving a call from from a pollster who asked leading questions …

There are a few other things worth noting about this ad buy, which a media source says is about $300,000 between now and next Tuesday, roughly three-quarters of which will be spent on local television in Manchester and one-quarter on local television in Boston. It comes only a couple of days after top Giuliani strategists held a …

Having husbanded his cash as deep into the season as possible, Rudy Giuliani is hitting the airwaves in New Hampshire today with the first television ad of his campaign. Called “Tested”, there are two rather remarkable things about the 60-second spot. First (and you might want to sit down for this), there are no images of 9/11 in the ad, …