They’re apparently now broadcasting (date-sensitive link, couldn’t figure out how to link directly) campaign conference calls. Share the tedium, share the love!

I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: We’ve already made clear who won, why do you little people persist in voting?

More seriously (though not quite): I’m shocked that Hillary could even pull in 17 percent in a crowd of DC insiders. McAuliffe and Penn must have voted at least twice.

At the NYT’s Campaign Stops blog, Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker lucidly explains the distinctions between the Clinton and Obama health care plans, and why they really don’t amount to much of a difference. (Which is a point I made earlier this week, but not nearly as well.)

I have long been fascinated by the complex gender politics at play in the Democratic primary, where a woman for the first time has the chance to win the historically macho job of president. But I have not looked closely at the topic since last summer, when surrogates used to introduce Hillary Clinton as the one who would “stand up to …

A fun and mildly poignant piece on the undecided superdelegates in Salon today, which makes it sound as though they aren’t politically calculating so much as politically terrified:

For superdelegates, most of whom are active politicians, to choose is to lose the support of either the Obamaniacs or the Hillary-ites in their state or

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Yesterday, as we all know, was the fifth anniversary of President George W. Bush’s unforgettable and unforgivable “Mission Accomplished” speech on the deck of a stage set (er, aircraft carrier) off the coast of San Diego.

Now that we’re in the sixth year of an Iraq mission that has yet, and may never, be accomplished, the President and …

Few people in American politics have more stories — or more scars — than Harold M. Ickes, the flamboyant and foul-mouthed son and namesake of FDR’s great cabinet secretary and the man in whose hands rest Hillary Clinton’s slim-but-still-real chances of wresting the Democratic presidential nomination away from Barack Obama. Ickes’ job …

For all his troubles over the past few weeks, Barack Obama continues to cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead among the superdelegates–elected and party officials–who will ultimately determine who gets the nomination. But while the Obama campaign made much yesterday of the defection of Joe Andrew, a former DNC chair who switched from Clinton …

The story of her apparent* suicide is dominating the cable channels — predictably, given the salaciousness of the entire saga. But our colleague Adam Zagorin, in his sad story on TIME.com that reveals she had talked of ending her life, also raises an important question that the feds have never answered adequately: Why were they …

• “A community…that is populated by individuals who, because they spend so much time hunched over a computer taking politics personally and living intensely inside their heads, are on constant hyper-aware alert—sensitive to slights, prone to excitations, and susceptible to a hair-trigger impulse to dramatize their thoughts and

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