A plain blog about politics

I did a long write-up on the debate over at Plum Line, so I'll mostly just send you there. If you missed it, but enjoy presidential deb...

Bill Clinton's critique of Barack Obama includes a complaint that Obama didn't sufficiently explain that bank bailouts for an unfort...

Rick Perry drops out and endorses Newt Gingrich . Reminder: he endorsed Rudy Giuliani last time around. Presidential nomination politics i...

So the official numbers from Iowa are finally out, and it's still a tie -- but now it's a tie with Rick Santorum having a few more o...

Good item from Steve Kornacki (who has been doing great work on GOP WH 2012, which I feel that I haven't linked to enough; you should be...

Before we come up with all sorts of theories of why the Republican field was so weak in the 2012 presidential cycle (as Paul Krugman does he...

Ross Douthat has a very nice item about how Newt Gingrich has helped to spike the chances of a more conservative opponent defeating Mitt Rom...