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1. Swing States Project

   Energy Ad War Revs Up in Battleground States

   April 11, 2012 04:38 PM

   It’s coming, the New York Times reported on Monday, the start of that “major anti-Obama advertising blitz” from the largest of the Republican super PACs, American Crossroads (and its non-donor-disclosing, nonprofit sister group, Crossroads GPS). It’s here, The... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Flashback: Super Tuesday 2008 (Vote-zilla!!!)

   March 6, 2012 11:16 AM

   Today is Super Tuesday! Or, "'pretty good' Tuesday," as MSNBC's delegate math whiz Chuck Todd put it in a wistful walking-to-work tweet this morning. A far cry from "Monster Super Tuesday," which is but one... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Super PAC Reporting: Recommended Reading

   February 1, 2012 02:57 PM

   Maybe you know someone—a friend—who keeps hearing about Super PACs, knows he should know more about what they are, where they come from, and what they’re doing, but hasn’t quite kept up? You’re in luck, my friend, your friend: There’s... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   North Korean Newspaper Goes English on Web

   January 11, 2012 11:05 PM

   Last month, on the occasion of the passing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, I reviewed the 1983 Pyongyang-published book, The Great Teacher of Journalists, which chronicled the Dear Leader’s tireless contributions to (and benevolent corrections of)... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Best of 2011: Liz Cox Barrett

   January 3, 2012 06:00 AM

   Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver Where there are campaign finance laws, there are work-arounds. And Jon Ralston, as a seasoned political reporter and self-described campaign finance report “obsessive” in Nevada --a state with, in Ralston’s words,... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   The Great Teacher of Journalists: Kim Jong-il

   December 20, 2011 04:24 PM

   North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has died. A couple of days, perhaps, after the Dear Leader passed, the state news agency informed the people, citing Kim’s “overwork” on behalf of North Koreans and related “mental and... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Hints of Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Move?

   December 12, 2011 03:53 PM

   Early today, Politico's Ben Smith announced that he will be "giving up this blog" (the recently renamed and relaunched "Ben Smith on Politics and Media" blog at Politico) to join BuzzFeed, which the The... Continue reading

8. Feature

   Immediate Returns

   December 2, 2011 06:00 AM

   Thirty-five-year-old Ben Smith reports on national politics for Politico from a rent-a-desk writers’ workspace on the first floor of a blue Victorian house in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. While Smith’s widely read blog at Politico bears the tag... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Back to Watergate Era “Bags of Cash”?

   November 16, 2011 01:50 PM

   “The pre-Watergate bags of cash are back,” declares MSNBC’s First Read this morning, pointing to a New York Times piece about how Jon Huntsman’s wealthy father is spending big money via a super PAC to help his son’s... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Found: Coverage of FEC “Stalemate”

    November 8, 2011 09:45 AM

    ProPublica’s Marian Wang describes in a piece posted yesterday the ongoing “gridlock” at the Federal Election Commission (the agency, Wang explains, “tasked with ensuring that campaigns and contributors play by the rules”). Wang notes how “hands-off” the FEC has... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    ProPublica’s Rad Redistricting Music Video

    November 2, 2011 04:07 PM

    Nearly as catchy as “Fifty Nifty United States” and undoubtedly more edifying than a semester in Mr. Lewis's fourth period social studies class: ProPublica’s newest video music explainer, this one on the complicated and timely topic of... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    NYT Lets You Play Political Donor

    October 17, 2011 04:05 PM

    Want to give $1 million to Herman Cain's presidential effort but don't want the public to be privy to your generosity? Maybe you're a billionaire itching to donate $10 million to help Democrats regain the House of Representatives and you... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    GOP Debate: Animal Planet or Wizard of Oz

    October 12, 2011 02:09 PM

    Today is the day when columnists in our capital compare the GOP presidential candidates to nonhumans and liken the experience of observing them vie for the nomination to watching some other production altogether. Here’s Politico columnist Roger Simon: ... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    New Yorker on Art Pope’s “Singular Influence Machine”

    October 4, 2011 05:31 PM

    Just over a year ago, The New Yorker published Jane Mayer’s widely-discussed look at the “covert operations” of the “billionaire brothers” Charles and David Koch and their well-funded “war against Obama.” (The current issue of Bloomberg Markets has another... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Obama Campaign Shows Fundraising “Strength”?

    September 27, 2011 04:51 PM

    Should Team Obama be feeling optimistic or concerned about its fundraising prospects this election cycle? That depends. It depends, of course, on how fundraising success is measured (Who gave and how much? Compared to what?). We don’t yet know... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Count the Chris Christie Headlines…

    September 27, 2011 03:38 PM

    …appearing on Politico’s home page right now (here's a screen shot): I spy these four highly informative headlines: "Christie Still Not Running" "Should Christie Take His ‘One Shot'?" "Chris Christie, still no" (which actually... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Profiling Paint Creek

    September 21, 2011 10:48 AM

    So, you’re a member of the national media tasked with heading to west Texas to capture for your non-west Texas audience a flavor of the very small place where Gov. Rick Perry grew up—the place, as The New York... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    “The National Media” and Perry

    September 19, 2011 01:33 PM

    Some interesting bits from Politico’s recent piece on "the hunger for information" about Rick Perry and how “the Texas press stands to benefit from [this] Perrypalooza"—including in the form of book contracts for some veterans of the Perry beat.... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Covering Rick Perry: “Exciting!”

    August 17, 2011 03:30 PM

    Three out of five MSNBC talking heads agree (the other two at the table didn't weigh in): they’d rather cover Rick Perry than Mitt Romney. The following was an exchange between some of the regulars on MSNBC’s Morning Joe... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    You Made Your Tweet…

    August 17, 2011 10:07 AM

    ...now wear it. From a wearable technology workshop somewhere inside Microsoft's headquarters comes: The Printing Dress (h/t, joonbug). This black and white, strapless, be-keyboarded frock enables the wearer to project her tweets onto the A-line... Continue reading

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