On Sunday, Hillary Clinton took questions from an Iowa audience and got into a spat with a would-be supporter over her vote to declare Iran’s army a supporter of terrorism. The audience member compared the vote to her vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq and asked why she hadn’t “learned from your past mistakes.” Clinton then …

This, apparently, is what passes for a policy debate these days.

UPDATE: Think Progress gives us the electronic paper trail.

Her daughter Liz may have signed on for Fred Thompson (though Liz will be a no-show in the spin room this afternoon), but Second Lady Lynne Cheney–herself the daughter of a Mormon (Who knew?)–comes to the defense of Mitt Romney. She says in an interview with Bill Sammon in today’s Examiner that she is “really astounded” by the …

A very special audio-only “voicecast” of the SwampCast.

As we had discussed here before, John Edwards had been wooing the Service Employees International Union, and at one point had been considered a favorite to get its endorsement, which is considered one of the biggest prizes in Democratic politics. The first sign of trouble came last month, when the union said it needed more time to decide …

The race for the Senate seat being vacated by Pete Domenici continues to take shape.

Albuquerque’s popular Mayor Martin Chavez plans to announce tomorrow morning that he will run for the Democratic nomination. Chavez tells me he made the decision after speaking to Governor (and presidential contender) Bill Richardson, who is the top …

Hillary gave a very substantive policy speech this morning, and by “substantive,” I mean “it contained a lot of numbers.” No, seriously, it was the economic cornerstone upon which she is mounting her “Rebuilding the Road to the Middle Class” tour of Iowa (untangle those metaphors at your own risk). She laid out some goals that would …

I wonder who he could be talking about here:

“There are some in this race who actually make the argument that the more time you spend immersed in the broken politics of Washington, the more likely you are to change it. I always find this a little amusing. I know that change makes for good campaign rhetoric, but when these same

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Just now, here in Cedar Rapids, Hillary confirmed that fake news* is now a policy plank: “To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: this administrations doesn’t make decisions based on facts, it makes facts based on decisions.”

(She apparently used the same line in her science speech last week; let’s hope she starts name-checking …

Our colleague Mark Halperin has some thoughts about the latest Des Moines Register poll.

Polling geeks and those that aspire to such should follow Pollster.com on the nitty-gritty of these things; this post on the Obama campaign’s latest spin gives you an idea of why methodology matters.