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As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today -- 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll -- is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

Abu Muqawama, reading a story from The Washington Post about the cost overruns of the Army’s/SAIC’s/Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, remarks: SAIC’s executive

With a new administration, dozens of new members of Congress, billions of dollars in stimulus spending up for grabs, and multiple national crises, 2009 is

Democratic leaders in Iowa say the occupy movement generally lines up with their party’s values, but both those leaders and people in the movement are wary of any connection between the two. Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , said he believes Democrats will try to co-opt the movement.

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise: They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American

Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be

In some quarters, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s order to his troops in Afghanistan to protect civilians first represents a dangerous exposure to battlefield risk,

At the rally outside the Capitol on Sunday, Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks told me that he was hearing things about the race in FL-19, the congressional

Richard Holbrooke, a longtime diplomat, has reconfigured the State Department’s South and Central Asia bureau.

At the Code Red rally today, I did the reporting for this post. When I returned to the office, I fired off a 3:41 email to Jane Hamsher. Hamsher did

Mary Ann Akers works the Too Much Information beat at the Media Research Center’s annual awards dinner, reporting that Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher

What does National Public Radio have in common with Planned Parenthood? They’re both national organizations, both often despised by the right wing, both

That’s according to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), one of the three Republicans on the Hill who backed the stimulus package, according to Ryan Grim. Even those

Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel who’s making his second run for Congress from a south Florida swing district next year, pens a column for Human Events

Dems hope to boost their Latino cred today. Voinovich: The GOP’s biggest problem is too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. Bush-era letters provide a

The Charleston Daily Mail reports today that the West Virginia board charged with investing the state’s pension money will not join nine other states in

The Occupy Miami protest campground (Pic by Ashley Lopez) Occupy Miami protesters are reporting that county officials are requesting that they move from the area they have been occupying since Oct. 15 by 5 p.m.

On Thursday, right as Round One of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing gaveled to a close at Guantanamo Bay, the Office of the Secretary of Defense announced that

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just told reporters that he doesn’t know. That cash, gifted to General Motors ($13.4 billion) and Chrysler ($4 billion) in December