Campaigning is hard work, and only for those among us that are built for it. Just a few days ago a friend of mine asked me if the presidential campaigns ever take a day off. I just sort of laughed and said, "Not the good ones." He said, "Isn't this primary quite a bit longer than they usually are? How are the workers contending with that? Badly, I would imagine." I sent him this as a confirmation of his suspicions.

The issue holding up the Michigan re-vote seems to be a chicken-or-the-egg kind of argument:

State lawmakers looking at a Democratic presidential primary redo in Michigan appear to be locked in a standoff heading into a crucial week: Legislative leaders say the U.S. Sen. Barack Obama camp needs to agree to the repeat election before legislation is written, and Obama supporters say they must see the bill before signing off on the plan.

I read ThinkProgress quite often, so I was happy to see their new sister project take off: The Wonk Room, which they describe as a "public policy rapid response room" and "a resource for in-depth policy analysis on four core issue areas: health care, economic mobility, national security, and climate change." Those are several of my favorite political things joined together!

I saw this post the other day at Daily Kos in which pro-Clinton diarist called for a writer's strike, saying that the environment had become, "...progressively more abusive toward my candidate and her supporters." This actually became quite a big deal and garnered