I have a piece on John McCain and the improbable fact that he just might be on the verge of becoming the GOP frontrunner again.
Tale from the Trail
The good news: When the Clinton press plane landed at 4 a.m. this morning in Manchester, the campaign had arranged for plenty of cars for hire to take us to our hotels.
Bad news: The drivers (not the campaign) charged us $150 apiece for a 10-minute ride.
NOTE TO HIGH SHERIFFS: I’ve got a receipt.
Team Clinton
is making it pretty clear that things are about to get a lot rougher.
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Last Night in Iowa
And a new day.
Update: I wrote this in the heat of the moment after midnight last night without checking the entry poll numbers. Josh Marshall points out that second-choicers seemed to go to Edwards. Not sure how extensive or accurate the entry polling was, but it does seem clear that I was wrong to write that the second-choicers went …
Edwards Claims to Be Seabiscuit
Greetings from Manchester, New Hampshire where, bleary-eyed, the Edwards caravan arrived this morning. At a rally Elizabeth Edwards likened her husband to Seabiscuit — the famed Depression-era race horse who overcame all kinds of handicaps to win race after race. “You saw how much attention some candidates got, how much money,” she …
Flickr: GOP Caucuses
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<p>I could have voted.</p>
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<p>At least two evangelical pastors who are personally supporting Mike Huckabee received anonymous mailings warning that their churches risk sanction by the Internal Revenue Service if they become too involved in politics, Michael Scherer <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1699618,00.html">wrote yesterday</a>. In a press conference on Thursday, Huckabee condemned the mailings calling them, ‘a …</p>
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<p>At their last lunch before the caucuses, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, along with Hillary’s mom Dorothy Rodham, corralled a room for a group of their supporters at a Des Moines restaurant called Tursi’s Latin King in Des Moines. At their table was a petite blonde woman with brilliant blue eyes who had played a peculiar role in their …</p>
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<p><em>Time</em>‘s Joel Stein brings his L.A. perspective to the Iowa caucuses:</p>
<blockquote><p>My wife and I play this game called Better, Worse, Same. You see a celebrity in person, you compare her to what she looks like on TV and photographs. For instance: Jenna Elfman: better; Kate Hudson: worse; Will Smith: same.</p>
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The Best Gaffes, So Far
We’ve updated our gallery chronicling, and ranking, the best gaffes of the 2008 campaign cycle. Check it out here.
Et tu, Fox?
Richard Viguerie, political direct mail pioneer and gray eminence of the conservative movement, fired a volley today at Roger Ailes and Fox News for barring Ron Paul from the channel’s January 6th presidential debate in New Hampshire. Viguerie has been displeased for some time by the GOP, which he accuses of becoming a party of Big …