Below The Beltway

It’s becoming apparent that Al Franken isn’t going to pull ahead of Norm Coleman in the still-ongoing Minnesota Senate race:
While a tiny margin separates the candidates in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it is wide enough that Democrat Al Franken faces a daunting task in challenging votes to erase Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead.
The two sides [...]

With Hillary Clinton headed to Foggy Bottom in January, speculation about her successor is heating up:
The task of choosing a successor falls to David Paterson, New York’s Democratic governor. Whomever he picks would serve for two years, before a special election in November 2010 to decide who fills the last two years of Clinton’s term.
Paterson [...]

George W. Bush on the greatest regret of his Presidency:
Looking back on his eight years in the White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as “biggest regret of all the presidency.”
“I think I was unprepared for war,” Bush told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson [...]

Earlier this year, John McCain and Hillary Clinton tried to put some life into their respective campaigns by endorsing a gas tax holiday that would have lasted for the entire summer. As I noted back then, the proposal made almost no economic sense and would have likely resulted in no real savings for the public.
Now, [...]

Anyone remember this little exchange from the December 13, 2007 Des Moines Register debate:

Well, it took a little less than a year, but Hillary finally responded to the offer:

H/T: Justin Gardner

Since we’ve all been speculating about it for weeks now, there’s not really any surprise to it, but nonethless, Barack Obama officially named Hillary Clinton his Secretary of State Designate:
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama called for “a new dawn of American leadership” on Monday as he formally introduced his national security team, led by Senator [...]

I haven’t written much about the latest round of efforts to “prove” that Barack Obama is Constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States because he isn’t a “natural born” American citizen, mostly because the arguments being advanced by the people making those arguments are as baseless as they were when I wrote about [...]

The Washington Post reports today that the incoming Senate is likely to be much easier on Barack Obama than Republicans would like:
Democrats said much of their disappointment about falling short of 60 Senate seats dissipated when Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) was declared the winner of the Senate race in Alaska, giving Democrats 56 seats, [...]

There are yet more signs that demographic shifts in the Old Dominion are working against them:
After an election in which Virginia was one of the most hotly contested states in the presidential race, the results show Virginia Democrats amassing a formidable coalition as the state’s suburban communities grow more diverse, white voters in Northern Virginia [...]

With one day left before the run-off election, Sarah Palin is down in Georgia campaigning for Saxby Chambliss:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Call Sarah Palin the closer.
The Alaska governor and former Republican vice-presidential nominee is back on the campaign trail Monday, teaming up with Sen. Saxby Chambliss at four campaign events in Georgia on the last full [...]