For all that has been written over the years about the supposed political genius of Karl Rove, the real man of genius in this cycle has to be former Pres. Jimmy Carter, who is valiantly waging a one-man campaign to make Barack Obama’s foreign policy positions (whatever they are today) seem moderate by comparison. Jimmuh, currently at the Hay-on-Wye festival, is claiming that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. 

RCP’s Jay Cost has a series of bar charts reviewing Barack Obama’s voting coalition.  Most of these review Obama’s performance versus Clinton, which makes them of limited interest in the context of the general election.  The final chart, however, addresses the contribution of blacks, wealthy voters and young whites to Obama’s voting base — statistics which may say something about a general election.  Eyeballing the chart suggests that blacks made

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At the Politico, John H. Harris writes about the way the media makes minor stories seem like major ones.  The aspect most will note is his confession that the Politico jumped all over Hillary Clinton invoking the assassination of RFK as a rationale for continuing her presidential campaign to juice the site’s traffic statistics.  But there is more to it than that. After all, Harris also notes that: If this really was a

Here. And personal advice doled out by O! (h/t Reynolds) Most amazing midget wrestling facecrawling video ever. Rodeo deer. Chestnut Mare. Cool web tools to bookmark. Message to Obama: Bad Day at the Office

At Newsweek, Michael Isikoff has a small piece on ASK Public Strategies – a “consulting” firm that specializes in lobbying via “astroturfing” run by Barack Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod. However, true to Newsweek’s general left-wing, pro-Obama stance, the piece buries any link between ASK’s corporate clients, like the utility company Exelon, and Obama near the very bottom of the inverted pyramid, noting in passing: One of them, Exelon, lobbied Obama

Insouciant: (Source) Mona on Karl TMI I think we ought to have happyfeet go here and file a report.

A glance at the front page of the Washington Post website before retiring last night had four stories pegged to the new Indiana Jones movie: an archaeologist complaining that the Indy movies are (omg!) not an accurate portrayal of the profession; the wacky backstory on antiquities from Afghanistan on display at the National Gallery of Art; a Reuters story from Friday about Russian Communists calling for the movie to be banned

At The Left-Wing Review of Books, left-wing journalist Michael Tomasky reviews three new books on presumed GOP presidential nominee John McCain, including one by admitted liar (and piss boy to George Soros) David Brock.  However, Tomasky’s favorite is by Matt Welch, an editorial-page editor at the Los Angeles Times and a former editor at Reason magazine: His book is the best of the three. The other two, though useful, would have