To the chase: three solid sources, one of them Buckeye Planet's unionfutura, indicate that MI QB Devin Gardner has moved up his announcement date to Monday. He plans on attending the Michigan junior day festivities this Friday; you can draw your own conclusions from that. Also, both sources indicate...

Short answer: "Who the hell knows? It's Tom Coburn, people". Will Oklahoma's junior Senator, in terms of tenure if not outright nuttiness (he gets stiff competition on that score from senior pal James Inhofe), hang up his spikes at the end of his term, in 2010? Will "Dr. No", as Tommy is not-so-affe...

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) conducted a private poll on his 2010 bid for re-election but he refused to make the results public, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Said Bunning: "Let's say I did the polling... That means it's none of your god damn business. If you paid the 20 grand for the poll, you...

All you legally gay-married folks will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census. Census takers will ask same-sex couples who live together to define themselves as "unmarried partners," as they did in 2000 before some states - currently only Connecticut and Massachusetts - allowed gay marriage. "This i...

It is not news that there are violent whack jobs on the fringe of the Republican Party. The last Presidential campaign gave us plenty of evidence, and we don’t really need Alexandra Pelosi’s film to tell us not only that there are extremist whack jobs out there on the Republican fringe, ...

Pennsylvania senior Sen. Arlen Specter is in large trouble. The Allentown Morning Call reported Thursday that two friends of Toomey's have said the Club for Growth chief has decided to enter the race. [...] The paper quotes Richard Thulin, leader of the Lehigh Valley Republican Network, saying in an...

New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former c...

Research 2000's latest poll for Daily Kos indicates that the state's junior Senator, right-wing Republican David Vitter, faces a very tough battle for reelection both within his own party and in prospective general-election matchups with reasonably strong Democrats. This should serve as a cautionary...

Former Commerce Secretary William Daley (D) is leaning toward running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, sources close to him tell The Hill. "They characterize the decision as all but finalized." "Daley would likely be an instant front-runner in the race to replace Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL). Though ...

Either today or tomorrow I'm going to call and talk to Gresham Barrett about his candidacy for governor, for the purposes of a column -- like the one I did on Vincent Sheheen. As I've indicated, I plan to focus on candidates for this job early, and give you, the voter, as much information as...