This from the Wall Street Journal’s Jackie Calmes:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign will close down Washington’s Union Station for all but the trains to hold a major fund-raiser there Dec. 6 — a month before the first and most-anticipated presidential-nominating vote in Iowa. The location is no accident, says a lobbyist who’s among

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My first love was music. My primary literary influences for the first decade of my writing life were Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus (who I’ve come to be irritated by but whatevs), and Richard Hell. I wish it showed. Anyway, it was a delicious little thrill to read today about Mac McCaughan (founder/lead singer for Superchunk and head of …

An especially brief ‘Cast today; you’ll understand when you see my hair.

The ad I discuss here:

This is a setback for the Dems, as he was their best prospect to win the Nebraska Senate seat being vacated by Chuck Hagel.

UPDATE: Commenter Sy asks:

WHO was pushing for Kerrey to run?

Among others, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer, who was putting on pretty much of a full-court press. Nebraska Democrats …

There they go again. An AP story that ran on A10 of the Washington Post this morning quotes two unnamed sources as saying the White House “significantly edited” the testimony of Centers for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding to delete references to the effects of climate change on the spread of disease:

A CDC official familiar

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The most stirring compliment Michael Cooper dug up for this profile of the McCain campaign manager that took over from ousted Terry Nerlson is this: “Mr. Davis deserved credit for keeping the operation afloat.”

That is probably a lot harder than it sounds.

Indeed, McCain has collected a string of coups, from minor to middling, in the …

A brief look at some recent outbursts from John Edwards, spring-boarding off of this excellent Joe Trippi profile in today’s WP.

It’s difficult in a ‘Cast to get into the specific charges Edwards makes against Clinton in his “rapid-response” releases that I refer to, but I’ve included excerpts here. Mostly, they hammer her with as …

A new survey by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press finds this about the 2008 presidential campaign:

The public’s overall impression of the presidential campaign is that it is too long and not very interesting. Overall, 66% say the campaign is too long, while 55% describe it as dull. Just 37% say they think the campaign

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In its effort to convince Ted Stevens to reconsider running for re-election to the Senate next year, the Alaska Democratic Party has launched a website — RetireTed.com — devoted to the ethical cloud hovering over the six-term Republican. Despite being under investigation by the FBI and the IRS in a corruption probe that has also …

Republicans have long insisted that their party holds potential appeal for black voters. In 2005, then-GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman went before the NAACP to apologize for the party’s past exploitation of racial strife for political advantage, and asked African-Americans to “take another look at the party of Lincoln.” But that kind of …