You knew it was coming: now Huckabee is officially calling for a recount in Washington.

A vote to ratify a deal reached with studios and producers over the weekend will be voted on tomorrow. It seems like the strike may actually finally be over. Or at least this one is — the rumor I'm hearing now is that the Screen Actors Guild may take similar action to secure compensation for their own work in new media distribution models.

For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Phyllis Wolper, the Democratic candidate for County Commissioner Precinct 1, Denton County.

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.

We intended to post the final delegate counts for this weekend, but we’re not quite sure which count to go with. The major news sites generally agree on the winners and losers for each state, but beyond that, everyone’s delegate count is different. (The New York Times, perhaps wisely, sticks to percentages and leaves the delegates “to be determined.”) Rather than concoct an average through some esoteric mathematical process, we suggest you take a look and decide which count you like best.

It’s about time. Late last year, a U.S. House task force recommended the creation of an “Office of Congressional Ethics.” It still hasn’t been voted on but if accepted by the whole House, it would be a giant step in the right direction.

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.