Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin says you should beware of the administration's song and dance over the September report on Iraq.

In case you missed it, the American people were winning yet another Democratic debate this weekend, this one on a Sunday morning — and on network television.

Just a few weeks after our launch, Cody Yocom produced some work on Nick Lampson's race in 2008 and looked at who might fill the field in the Republican primary.

No matter what you think, the biggest story in the last 24 hours — and probably in a much larger span of time than that — is the news, reported here by the Washington Post, that the Bush administration is going to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps "as a 'specially designated global terrorist.'"

This is a weird little tale that comes to us from TPM Muckraker: the Republican National Committee has started sending out letters to people saying that "a recent audit of your Party affiliation turned up some irregularities." The letters then ask for money.

Karl Rove announced very, very early this morning that he is resigning his post and leaving politics, effective August 31. He says it is to spend more time with his family. An obvious plus for Republicans is Rove's absence as the election nears — "Karl Rove" as a phrase carries what some might call a negative connotation, and any distance between him and politics is probably a net plus for the GOP in 2008. Or rather, they are at least not hurt anymore by his presence in the White House.

Draft movements for Senate races abound - RunAndrewRun.com and many other Oklahoma Democrats may have convinced state Senator Andrew Rice to mount up a challenge.

Jon Stewart for President? Publicy-financed campaigns? What is this, some sort of liberal website?

Chet Culver, Governor of Iowa, says that if he has to change state law to keep Iowa's caucus first — and in 2008 — then he will.

The Democratic presidential candidates didn't quite have a debate last night. Instead, the Logo candidate forum on GLBT issues sponsored by MTV Networks' Logo channel and the Human Rights Campaign was just that: a forum in which each candidate got around 15 minutes to take questions from the panel and from viewers.