In an ad released today, the RNC attacks Congress and Barack Obama for bailing out Wall Street.  This, despite the fact that their presidential candidate supports the plan: The ad was released before the bailout failed, but while McCain’s surrogates were taking credit for its passage: Contrast the RNC’s confused bile with Obama’s two...

Hey, it’s bring-your-patently-unqualified-vice-presidential-running-mate-to-work-day:

Via Jonathan Martin at Politico: Of concern to McCain’s campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin’s interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing. The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in...

Political Wire reports on a new poll which finds Obama leading in….North Carolina: A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Sen. Barack Obama has taken the lead over Sen. John McCain for the first time, 47% to 45%. Key finding: “Over the last year there’s been a strong relationship between the number of North Carolinians...

Unable to produce the votes necessary for passage of the $700 billion bailout, House Republicans took to the microphones this afternoon to pin blame on Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Several Republican aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had torpedoed any spirit of bipartisanship that surrounded the bill with her scathing speech near the close of the...