Whether it is Gallup, Pew, or Rasmussen, Indiana, North Carolina or even New Hampshire, the polling trends are not good for Barack Obama at the moment.  Former DNC chairman (and superdelegate) Joe Andrew flips from Hillary Clinton to Obama because he thinks the protracted campaign is dividing the party.  I find myself agreeing with TPM’s Josh Marshall that Andrew is not that big a “get,” but Allahpundit agrees with a theory

— Why, it’s a tag-team combination of unassailable authenticity and Otherly victimhood, is what it is! Not that I have anything against a guy of voting age having a political viewpoint — hell, truth is, it’s refreshing to hear a white liberal admit that he’s voting for Obama because the cat happens to be both Black and articulate (can we call a differently abled person “racist”?) — but what I

Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Menomonee Falls [WI]) is a cosponsor of HR 5911, the Remove Incentives to Produce Ethanol Act of 2008 (RIPE Act), introduced this week by Representative Jeff Flake of Arizona.  This bill will repeal the legislative provisions responsible for the artificial demand for ethanol by: Repealing the renewable fuel standard; Repealing tax credits for ethanol producers; Repealing tariffs on importing ethanol. “I have always been opposed

Key paragraph: In recent months, the candidate has tried to distance himself from Mr. Wright and his often radical views, even as he felt compelled to understand and explain his former pastor to a larger, predominantly white political world. So, on the one hand they admit, finally, that the pastor’s views are “often radical,” even as they imply that they are not easily contextualized for a “predominantly white political world.” 

The Boston Phoenix’s Steven Stark, noting Hillary Clinton’s ongoing efforts to portray Brack Obama as a wimp, observes: [D]oubts about a candidate’s masculinity would spell trouble regardless of the opponent. But it’s especially problematic when, well, it’s a woman who’s pointing out what a wimp you’ve become. There is a well-accepted role in American life for the “tomboy” – a role, say, inhabited in pop culture by Seinfeld’s Elaine –

At FDL, Jane Hamsher is on Code Red alert status: According to the ACLU, there is rumor of a backroom deal being brokered by Jay Rockefeller on FISA that will include retroactive immunity. I’ve heard from several sources that Steny Hoyer is doing the dirty work on the House side, and some say it will be attached to the new supplemental. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Heylaydee) said last week that he would

Vanity Fair has an amusing article by James Wolcott about bloggers waging war over Hillary and Obama, entitled “When Democrats Go Post-al.” Mr. Wolcott has in the past performed psychosexual ananlysis on this onion bulb, here. Among the cast of characters are: Match them with their descriptions: a) accused Hillary of cult membership in “the sinister heart of the international right.” b) celebrity clubhouse of Obamamania. c) managed to annoy