With 39% reporting, McCain has a very slight edge. John McCain: 34% Mitt Romney: 32% Rudy Giuliani: 16% Mike Huckabee: 14% Ron Paul: 3% As I said earlier, Florida ain’t deciding squat. This race is going for the long haul, to Super Tuesday and beyond.

Obama needs it. Hillary wants it. Kennedy could swing it. From Wash Post: Richardson’s torn. He served in the Clinton White House, first as ambassador to the United Nations, then as Clinton’s Secretary of Energy. “I have a history with the Clintons,” Richardson said. “And I’ve always liked her. She always seems very genuine.” But [...]

First, American Research Group has this poll showing Romney pulling ahead… Gov. Romney is statistically tied for the lead with 34%. That’s virtually unchanged from 33% in the previous roll. 32% support McCain, unchanged from the last roll, while 12% support Huckabee, a decrease of 2 points from 14% over the same time period. 11% [...]

An interesting bit of history… The bond began with Kenyan labour leader Tom Mboya, an advocate for African nationalism who helped his country gain independence in 1963. In the late 1950s, Mboya was seeking support for a scholarship program that would send Kenyan students to US colleges – similar to other exchanges the US backed [...]

Interesting doublespeak from Giuliani today… From LA Times: In a meeting in the back of his chartered plane en route to St. Petersburg, Fla., a short while ago, the onetime, longtime GOP front-runner told a small group of reporters, including The Times’ Louise Roug: “The winner of Florida will win the nomination.” He then went [...]

Politico has the numbers: Clinton won the support of 49 percent of those polled by telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Jan. 23-27, a period that covered several days in advance of the South Carolina Democratic primary and one day afterward. Obama came in second place, with 32 percent to John Edwards’ 14 percent. The poll [...]

Looks like the Crist endorsement helped John, but the numbers are identical From Rasmussen: For most of the past week, John McCain was slightly behind Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary. Then, on Saturday, the Arizona Senator switched the subject of the campaign to his comfort zone–national security issues. Saturday night, the Arizona Senator [...]

And if you’re a conservative Republican, well, they’re both right. From AP: One day before the crucial Florida primary, Romney lambasted the Arizona senator for a host of “liberal answers” to the country’s problems. Among them: McCain’s legislation curbing money in politics, his more forgiving view of illegal immigrants and his backing of an energy [...]

“Obama has made the Super Tuesday vote more about who we are than who the candidates running for president are.” – Dick Morris in a column today

Few know who he is, but for those who do I present you with a clip from Davos that’s sure to make you laugh… Share it with the wonk you love today. (h/t: Sully)

And now a brief, intimate moment with the man who could form a viable 3rd party but instead wants to waste his money on chasing a nomination he can’t possibly win. (h/t: MeetThePrez.net)

They’re nailing Ted Kennedy to the wall for endorsing Barack Obama. Why? Because Barack doesn’t have a va-jay-jay. From Politico: “Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by [...]

After South Carolina, the Clinton team is rethinking their “Attack Bill! Attack!!!” strategy. From CNN: (CNN) – Democratic sources supportive of and regularly in touch with the Clinton campaign describe what one calls “a huge wave” of sentiment that Bill Clinton “needs to stop.” The sources — who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of [...]

Let me say, for the record, that I like PoliGazette’s Michael van der Galien a lot. He’s an incredibly nice guy and I appreciate his contributions to the moderate blogosphere. However, he’s batting 0 for 2 today. First he made the very thin accusation that the media thinks Obama is a Saint (with a capital [...]

Unless the poll numbers are wrong (which, you know, never happens), Rudy Giuliani is going down tomorrow. Needless to say, no one will be trying the “big state” strategy again anytime soon – except I think Giuliani’s crash-and-burn goes a lot deeper than failed election tactics. Bowing out of the early contests was just one [...]

What makes Ron Paul a Republican? He is the only GOP Candidate that advocates immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, and he strongly dissaproves of the Patriot Act. In this video, I ask him. I do admire the man. I can understand his appeal, particularly with young voters, even though I don’t think he would be [...]

I was just over at Joe’s place and found this (comment, arrow and circle are mine)… Just to be clear, Google ads are ALL automated so bloggers have nothing to do with this content showing up on their site. However, they can filter out the URL in question so ads from that URL don’t show [...]

I’ve stayed out of this story until recently because of the focus on the Dems race in South Carolina, but now Florida is upon us and so it’s time to turn attention back to the GOP. Basically, McCain said that Romney wanted a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. But did he? First, here’s what Romney [...]

(UPDATED and pushed to the top because of a response I gave to Michael’s counterpost.) Why is Michael van der Galien buying into Taylor Marsh’s dissection of a video where Obama uses some lingo made famous by Malcolm X? First, here’s the video… Then, Marsh’s question after the video… But why isn’t Barack Obama’s speech, [...]

Will there be any backlash for Barack? Probably not since these charges are unrelated to anything that Barack ever had anything to do with, but do know that people will try to bring this up in the coming week. From Chicago Tribune: Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a key fundraiser for Gov. Blagojevich and other Illinois politicians, [...]