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The National Governors Association is about to kick off its annual meeting, giving reporters a prime opportunity to schmooze multiple govs in a presidential election year. And the way things tend to work in our election system these days, the outcome of the race could ultimately hang by the vote count in a single state. […]

The lead stories in the two newspapers that Washingtonians find pair nicely with Sunday-morning latte and brioche feature tales of the likely criminal actions of corporate big-wigs. One is a story that suggests justice may be on its way; the other is a tale of criminal negligence without prosecution. The New York Times leads with […]

My dear Animals, I hope you will forgive me for cutting out today a little earlier than I customarily do, but I really, really have to go spend an afternoon trying not to lose my cool at the DMV. I promise to hang around a bit longer tomorrow, and have some real conversations. In the […]

After weeks of nearly deadlocked polling in the presidential race, President Barack Obama appears to have broken away with a significant lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows Obama finally cracking his margin-of-error lead over Romney, now ahead of the former Bain Capital CEO by 7 […]

While the sun was busy bombarding the earth with a giant energy ball, Washington was absorbed by a storm of a different nature, one that threatens to consume the Romney campaign. And so we found Mitt Romney last night making the rounds of the network and major cable newscasts, decrying the Obama campaign’s haymaking of […]

It’s good to be back with you, Animals, taking up the pen as your guest-blogger for the next two days. Thanks to Ed Kilgore for the invitation. It promises to be another steamy weekend in your nation’s capital, though not quite so boiling as when the mercury hit the 104 mark on Capitol Hill last […]

Thank you all for reading and engaging in the conversation, or for simply stopping by, even if you were on a Harley. Tomorrow being the official observation of Memorial Day, I leave you with a couple of items dedicated to that theme, as well as a few other links. As you have your fun, please […]

Just how does he do it, one wonders. How does Mitt Romney get way with accepting the most noxious sort of wingnuts, misogynist and racist public figures as his endorsers, only to draw bemused responses from most in corporate media? You’ll recall we started a bit of a cottage industry here, detailing the hatefulness of […]

Today brings more evidence of cracks in the Republican coalition. In its lead story, Politico serves up a rap on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s lack of vision. But if you read the subtext, the people making the claim are a group of right-wing Republicans. Add that to the spate of defections and insurgencies roiling […]

Had he not begun popping up in commercials for the down-market clothier, Old Navy, Robin Leach might have found fodder for a television program in today’s front-page New York Times story about Ann Romney’s love affair with dressage. For those, like me, who had to look up that word, let me caution you that it […]