It’s true that national polls this early in a race don’t tell us much about who’s going to win. But the polls testing the Republican presidential candidates do say something pretty amazing about the state of the GOP. Rudy Giuliani, while still usually coming in first (but now, occasionally, second) in the national polls, has nevertheless …

They’re bringing out the cots again in the Senate. These guys have offices, with BIG COMFY COUCHES, that are about a five-minute walk from the Senate floor. They have 15 minutes to get to the floor when the buzzers go off for a vote or a quorum call (though in practice the parliamentarian will hold the vote open longer if necessary). …

Our colleague Jay Newton-Small writes about the Democrats’ real agenda for tonight (besides makeovers, ghost stories and playing pictionary): Is the filibuster about dictating military policy to the President or is it about convincing their GOP colleagues that they’re on the losing side of history?

Levin cites a different historical

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The news that Barack Obama has been counting all the people who buy his t-shirts and bumper stickers as being among his record 258,000 campaign donors is causing something of a stir today.

Frequent Swampland commenter Paul Lukasiak weighs in, taking a little jab (though we love him anyway) at yours truly:

It turns out that Obama’s

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I had to hunt to find the quote that the Drudge Report cites, the one where Elizabeth Edwards says that Hillary Clinton is “behaving like a man.” I had to hunt because it doesn’t exist. Here’s the relevant passage, the misquoted part in bold:

Look, I’m sympathetic, because when I worked as a lawyer, I was the only woman in these

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This from the AP:

And the leading Republican presidential candidate is … none of the above.

The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney, and no one candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner

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Reporters scouring the second-quarter reports have come up with all kinds of tidbits, some telling and others merely entertaining.:

The Washington Post says Barack Obama has a bigger payroll than Hillary Clinton ($3.3 million for the quarter, compared with $2.6 million). But his communications guy is making only half what hers is, and …

Chris Cillizza over at The Fix has an intriguing post about Bill Richardson’s slow and steady progress towards the top tier of the Democratic field of presidential candidates. He’s raised a respectable amount of money, hasn’t spent it all, has a solid organization in Iowa and is polling a reasonably strong fourth both there and in New …

Joe Wilson endorses HRC.

UPDATE:Officialish thing here. Via the INCREDIBLE HILLARY HUB!

This is the second notice I’ve received from CNN reminding/urging me to apply for credentials for the VERY IMPORTANT ULTRA COOL YOUTUBE DEBATE! It’ll be all internetty!

For Re-Release: July 16, 2007

Press Credential Deadline for South Carolina Debate is THIS WEDNESDAY, July 18

CNN is currently accepting requests for press credentials

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That’s how much Barack Obama’s record-breaking campaign raised during the second quarter, according to this analysis by the Campaign Finance Institute. One of the most remarkable things about that number (as we have noted before) is how much of it–roughly one-third–came from small donors, who are not only a measure of early enthusiasm, …