Politico's Ben Adler provides an interesting look at the youth vote thus far and what it has the potential to be.

Via Matt Glazer at Burnt Orange, Quorum Report, and the Statesman comes the news that Texans for Public Justice have filed an official complaint against Tom Craddick, alleging that he is more or less trying to bribe his way to re-election as Speaker of the Texas House.

Many comments have been made about how nice McCain and Huckabee are to each other. It seems now that the truce might be over, as Huckabee is protesting the results of this weekend's caucus results in Washington.

I think most everyone thought McCain would take Washington, and he did. The media is really taking him to task for losing Kansas and Louisiana, but I think we all thought that would happen as well, so the newsbeatings are a little weird. The surprise in the news this weekend comes from Ron Paul, who not only says that he's probably not going to get the nomination, but that he also won't run as a third party candidate.

Patty Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's current campaign manager, has announced plans to shift to a senior advisory role. Maggie Williams will take over duties as campaign manager this week.

The Draft Bloomberg gang has issued an ultimatum to Mike Bloomberg, telling him that he's got ten days to get in the race, or else. Or else what, I'm not sure. Maybe the Draft Bloomberg MP's will come for him. Anyways, details here.

First they wanted Giuliani and didn't get him. Then they thought Mitt might work out but he withdrew. Now Fox News has done away with all pretense and started just saying that John McCain is a Democrat. I wonder if working at Fox News feels like a fake job.

From Greg Sargent: Mitt Romney says that staying in the race would have helped Senator Clinton or Senator Obama win, and by extension would have "...been a part of aiding a surrender to terror." I wonder if he cooked up this equation of a Democratic White House with a surrender to al-Qaeda by himself. What a sad tactic.

You knew it might happen, one way or the other: Senate Republicans successfully blocked the expansion of the economic stimulus package on a 58-41 vote. All this means for the moment is that the jockeying isn't over. This will come up again (and sooner rather than later) as pressure mounts to get the stimulus package out the door.

Apparently the DNC is pushing the two naughty states, Florida and Michigan, to hold caucuses. This is not what I thought the solution to the unseated delegate conundrum would be. George says it is a win-win, in that Michigan and Florida got to be somewhat influential and the party gets to say that everyone gets their delegates when they straighten up and act right. I think this shows other states that it is okay to fly in the face of central authority. We'll see if it shakes out.