A — sigh — diavlog:

And, yes, there is more McCain-and-the-press talk. Please, feel to pile on!

I — and a Friend of Swampland — have taken the liberty of trying to recreate the IM conversation between Obama advisor David Axelrod and Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson Michael mentions below:

KewlSweater (9:26:06 PM): yt?

AxStache (9:26:55 PM): y

KewlSweater (9:27:01 PM): we got the white ppl! suck on it!

AxStache (9:27:12 PM): sorry

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The Hill-O-Plane last night from Indiana had an odd feel to it. Just as we took off, leaving BlackBerry range, Obama was quickly closing the statewide margin in Lake County. The press corps was not convinced that Clinton had won the state, giving the whole flight a sort of deck-of-the-Titanic feel. Campaign staff never faltered in their …

Just now, on this morning’s HRC conference call, Geoff Garin had this spin regarding the campaign’s North Carolina 14 point loss: “We lost the white electorate in Virginia, started even in North Carolina among the white electorate just two weeks ago, and ended [with] a very significant win of 24 points among those voters.” He called …

A little after 1AM last night, the networks that weren’t CBS called Indiana for Hillary. It was a dramatic evening for those interested in putting states in one column or another, but the real news (or lack of it) was just how close it was. As Chuck Todd started to remind viewers when yesterday became today, “We’re doing all this for one …

I managed to wean my focus away from the presidential campaign just long enough yesterday to read an outstanding op-ed by Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post about how the next great international crisis and war could well ignite over…..Abkhazia.

“Ab-wha’?” you ask.

And that’s Applebaum’s point exactly. We’re so consumed with our …

There have been concerns that Indiana’s voter ID law, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, might be causing some confusion at the polls today. Reports are that voting is generally going smoothly, but I don’t think anyone expected this:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ

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For much of the day yesterday, The Huffington Post carried this banner headline:

CLINTON CAMP SAYS IT WILL USE THE NUCLEAR OPTION

All that was missing was a Drudge-style siren. The gist of the story, which first carried the headline “Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option,” was that Clinton folks might try to “ram” a decision through …

Hey, Mark Salter, why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

Asked why Huffington would make up her story about McCain not voting for Bush, longtime McCain aide Mark Salter — who has previously tangled with the Huffington Post — ripped into her. “Why would she make something up? Because she’s a flake and a poser and an

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Key West, FL
Greetings from a dim conference room. Today’s diversion from the beach was a presentation from Michael Lindsay in which he presented “eight myths about evangelicals.” Lindsay is the author of “Faith in the Halls of Power,” and had conducted some of academia’s most thorough and sensitive research on evangelicalism. His …

At last! What would you ask them?

UPDATE: A subpoena has been authorized for Cheney COS Addington.

Writing in Human Events, the former Speaker says that Saturday’s loss of a long-held Republican House seat in Louisiana, coming after a similar defeat in Illinois, “should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses …