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More GOP Trouble

While we were chasing campaigns across Texas yesterday, the news broke that Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) was indicted for a host of alleged shadiness, including bad land deals and embezzlement-as-campaign-finance. TPM Muckraker has the ever-thickening details here, from Paul Kiel.

Fort Worth Clinton Rally Canceled

Clinton's Fort Worth event was canceled, and is being rescheduled. A police officer in Clinton's motorcade had an accident and passed away as Clinton traveled from Dallas to Fort Worth. More details as we get them.

US Embassy in Belgrade Burns

The debate is exciting, but the world keeps inexorably turning. Protesters against Kosovar independence in Belgrade laid siege to the US Embassy in Belgrade. MSNBC has the story.

As Promised

Outside Reunion: The Long Lost Footage

I told you I shot some video today, but YouTube was being uncooperative. We made up, and you can see the video after the jump.

John McCain's No Good, Very Bad Day

When you are trying very hard to be a Moral Majority / Conservative candidate and sell yourself to people that are highly suspicious that you are not, in fact, a Moral Majority / Conservative candidate, it would be bad for even the stirrings of a sex scandal to crop up. But when you are the anti-Washington Maverick / Moral Majority / Conservative candidate, and said scandal is allegedly with a lobbyist? That is not good in a very special kind of way. The New York Times has the story, which every other outlet on the face of the earth is rightly calling a "bombshell."

From Outside Reunion

Man, there are a lot of people here. The joke was that people would be lined up on Tuesday for Obama's rally here today, and that by the time the doors opened, the line would be around the block. Turns out, that was no joke. More soon.

McCain Wins Washington

Washington state ends up a clear victory for McCain.

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