Pictures from caucusday.

We’ve updated our gallery chronicling, and ranking, the best gaffes of the 2008 campaign cycle. Check it out here.

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 …

Hat tip to Marriott bellman Mike, who tells me he was startled to see none other than Bill Clinton coming out the door at my favorite corner of downtown Des Moines. Huckabee folks tell me the former President (and fellow former Arkansas Governor) just happened to be in the neighborhood, and wanted to say hi. I’m not sure, but I doubt …

JOHN MCCAIN 2008 LAUNCHES TV AD IN MICHIGAN, “AMERICAN REFORMER”
For Immediate Release

Contact: Press Office

Thursday, January 3, 2008

He finally responds to Ed Rollins’ spoken desire to knock his teeth out: “Don’t touch the hair.”

His writers are getting better.

Some people, it seems, just don’t appreciate the vital and utterly appropriate role Iowans play in deciding who will lead the United States of America for the next four years. These sourpusses seem to think that there is something deeply wrong about the fact that the collective wisdom of maybe 150,000 people (if turnout is high!) will …

In the past, readers have requested a look at the raw data/memos/releases we get from campaigns. There is a lot of it (dozens of emails a day), and today should be especially hectic, but I thought it might worthwhile to post, without comment, what the campaigns are sending out today… At least the ones I get.

I’ll start with the emails …