Stories on the GOP’s dead heat in South Carolina vastly understate the case.  As Charles Franklin noted yesterday at Pollster.com: One big warning here. South Carolina has shown suprising numbers of undecided. The Fox poll today, for example, has an unbelievable 19% undecided. That is HUGE. And, if you add up the trend estimates for the four top candidates here, you get… 81% leaving the same 19% unallocated. In Fox’s

Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday of the pain and embarrassment caused by her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, ten years after the scandal erupted and at the height of a presidential campaign when women will be crucial to her White House hopes.“I never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever,” Mrs Clinton said in an interview on Fox’s Tyra Banks Show, aired on the eve of the Nevada caucuses today, her next

If Britney Spears were to die today, it appears that at least one news organization is admitting that it is ready to go with her obituary.TMZ.com reported that The Associated Press has a pre-written obituary ready to go for the embattled pop singer. The celebrity gossip Web site confirmed the obituary with AP Entertainment Editor Jesse Washington, who explained the reasoning of the article to Us Weekly. “We would never

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton join the nutroots in misconstruing Sen. Barack Obama’s comments about wanting to be to progressives what Ronald Reagan was to conservatives. Here’s Hill: I have to say, you know, my leading opponent the other day said that he thought the Republicans had better ideas than Democrats the last ten to fifteen years. That’s not the way I remember the last ten to fifteen years.

Via Nedra Pickler, “Obama Debuts New Act in Vegas“: LAS VEGAS (AP) – The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas. Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he’s trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend’s Democratic presidential caucus. *** Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night’s debate when he and his rivals were asked to

Ben Affleck made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as giggly as a schoolgirl when he stopped by her D.C. office while researching a role for his upcoming political thriller, State of Play. And why not?  Affleck has run his career into the ground with a series of bad choices, while Pelosi has done the same with the approval rating for Congress.

LA Times headline: Clinton plays gaming card against Obama I remember the good old days, when it was just the race card and the gender card. But now that the cards are proliferating so quickly, we can work on building a political tarot deck. Please make your suggestions below. Nothing too curious or absurd for consideration.

Bill O’Reilly either downplays the numbers of or essentially denies the existence of homeless vets, according to rankled or frothing lefties, respectively.  This would seem to be an important distinction, though it’s causing some confusion. Many of them argue that someone who cares about the troops won’t argue with the numbers provided by the VA, ~200,000.  O’Reilly would probably say that the numbers are vastly inflated, as they serve as a stimulus

Rick Lowry points out that — despite the establishment media’s effort to portray Mike Huckabee’s campaign as a new populist force in the GOP — Huckabee has so far failed to gain meaningful support outside evangelical Christians.  This dynamic, particularly Huckabee’s difficulty with Catholic voters, was a topic of discussion of discussion here well before the Michigan primary.  That Huckabee does about as well with non-evangelicals as Ron Paul should be an

Thus shines a good deed in a weary world:  One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim’s father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger’s exhibit, police said in court documents filed Thursday. Paul Dhaliwal, 19, denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal,