I was among those who heard a valedictory note in Hillary Clinton’s final moment of Thursday night’s debate. But it’s amazing to see the conventional wisdom stampede that has followed it. Take today’s Washington Post, which writes:

Some supporters said they had discussed how to raise with Clinton the subject of withdrawing from the race

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The Rio Grande Guardian reports that one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent supporters in the Valley showed up at a rally this morning … for Barack Obama:

State Rep. Aaron Peña, who, in print and on TV has been a leading outreach activist in the Valley for Clinton, shocked many Friday morning when he sat down with his family in the

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Sometimes it can be shocking to remember that politics actually involves real people. This was posted Wednesday night, just as the New York Times story broke, by Meghan McCain on her blog, McCainBlogette.com:

Life is all about perspective. Having grown up in politics, I know it’s an industry that, for all intents and purposes, is known

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With the world still sorting through the implications of the lady lobbyist sorta-scandal, John McCain got back on the trail today as if nothing had happened–a 30-minute town hall in Indianapolis, followed by about 30-minutes of questions from the audience, and nary a mention of the New York Times story. (Before he was introduced, …

• “But while Lessig wryly notes that the RIAA and MPAA ‘won’t be excited to have an opponent of extremist copyright legislation in Congress,’ he also stresses that a congressional run would not be some kind of crusading extension of his work on ‘free culture.’ For Lessig, the central policy question will be, ‘Who ultimately controls

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Answer: It’s right there in the story. We may never know, at least in time for it to make any difference:

Complicating the dispute is the FEC’s current lack of a quorum. The six-member commission has four vacancies and Senate Democrats and Republicans are at loggerheads over how to fill them.

In his letter, Mason told McCain he would

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Lots more money is involved (millions, as opposed to tens of thousands), but no sexytime lobbyists in this McCain story: Is he improperly pulling out of the primary season public financing?

I’ll defer to Karen’s greater expertise on campaign financing as to tease out whether anyone is behaving badly here — or how bad the behavior is —

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So the January reports are out. But even though only three weeks have passed since the end of the reporting period, so much has happened in the presidential race that all this reads like something from an archaeological dig. Don’t you think, given all the technology we have available today, that someone should move for instantaneous, …

What Klein said about what Scherer said. It seems worth adding, however, that the Washington Post has a far more straightforward story on this whole business today.

Another point: The Post story, which has former strategist John Weaver quoted on the record as saying he warned the lobbyist in question to stay away from McCain, suggests …