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Politico has an interesting article up today doing a post-mortem on the New Hampshire coverage that all but pronounced the Clinton campaign dead after Iowa. It gives three primary reasons why the coverage was so favorable to Obama and so negative to Clinton.
However, in the end the article seems to be more about excuses than changes. [...]

TaxProf passed along a link to a new paper released by the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis authored by William Gentry of Williams College. The title of the paper is titled “A Review of the Evidence on the Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax” (pdf link) and discusses the evidence that corporate taxes falls disproportionately on labor rather [...]

CBSNews.com’s Politico blog has a story up on the “changing tactics” of the Clinton campaign after her third place finish in Iowa. Read “changing tactics” as mudslinging and you’re pretty much right on target.
Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to target what her campaign calls Barack Obama’s inexperience over the next five days in New Hampshire and [...]

I’ve read some of the analysis from the Iowa Caucus last night, but I’m not so sure that the pundits are right on the true winners and losers. I think the easy winner is Barack Obama, who showed that he could bring in independents and that a majority white electorate has no problems with his [...]

The Iowa caucuses are tonight. A lot of people are excited because this will hopefully winnow the field from 16 (I think) candidates left to 5 or 6 viable candidates. Others are excited because they get to leave Iowa (Iowa in December and January is not the happiest place on Earth).But for me, I almost [...]

From BNA
House Votes to Waive Pay-Go, Send AMT Relief to 21 Million Taxpayers
Posted Dec. 19, 2007, 4:50 PM ET
The protracted debate over whether to pay for a one-year patch for the alternative minimum tax ended Dec. 19 when the House voted 352-64 to clear the measure for President Bush’s signature.The House passed the bill (H.R. [...]

Just a quick post that I’m excited that the Blue Dogs haven’t backed down in the fight over the AMT patch. While I’m squarely in the crosshairs if this doesn’t get fixed (and I’ve chastised Congress for not fixing it two months ago) I love that they have not backed down in their demands to [...]

I want to like Mike Huckabee, I really do. While he’s far to the right of me on gay marriage and he does have prickly ethical problems, he’s more of a realist than the other GOP (or for that matter Democratic) contenders for the office of the Presidency. Plus, I like how someone that has [...]

Thoughts on NPR Democratic debate as I am listening
Iran Section
* Is there anything that John Edwards can’t blame Bush for? Note to the Edwards team: certain Muslims hated us well before Bush took power. Every time your candidate tries to pin something simply on Bush, the likelihood that I will vote for your candidate goes [...]