Hey, Congressional Republicans: Surprise! Another one among you is going to retire at the end of this term.

We've known it to be true that Iowa is still more or less up for grabs for some time now, but new polls show that Obama is making progress — and may actually be pulling ahead.

Fran Townsend, President Bush's main advisor on terrorism and Homeland Security issues, has announced she is on her way out of the White House.

Term limits must go. The experiment from the 1990s has now been around long enough to prove a failure and after last week’s city election in Houston, no further proof is necessary.

Not content to take it easy the weekend before Thanksgiving, politicians provided us with all sorts of news. Prime among them and today's first story: Rick Noriega has drawn a primary challenger in Ray McMurrey, a high school government teacher from the Corpus Christi area.

For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Farrukh Shamsi, SDEC Committeeman for Senate District 7 from Houston and Treasurer for the Asian American Democrats of Texas PAC.

This week's mailbag has a lot of talk about infrastructure, a sad piece of news about textbook accuracy, and some musings about the unfortunate occasional liberal fascination with Ron Paul.

You're going to see a lot of commentary on this editorial by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, in which she recommends that everyone be as friendly to Big Oil as possible, as they are keepers of national security and defenders of economic stability. There's plenty to pick on and very little that makes sense, but I'd like to address something very specific, a single thing that invalidates what is basically a pro-business argument.

Yes, yes, I know there was a Democratic debate last night. I'll get to that in a second. First I want to talk about Chris Bell, and the small matter of some donors that Perry's campaign failed to disclose in the waning hours of the 2006 governor's race. The Mystery Miracle Million may end up costing Perry big.

OK, there are only 15 minutes left in CNN's debate countdown — time to start the liveblog! Today's debate will determine whether Clinton's weaknesses in the last debate will be significant roadblocks that may sidetrack her nomination or merely road bumps on the way to a shoo-in.