Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on polling conducted Feb. 13-15, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — For several days, nationwide Democratic voters' preferences have been shifting toward Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily election tracking.  Now, the Illinois senator enjoys …

Right slams Obama as ‘shady Chicago socialist’  —  Republicans are out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger with dubious support  —  LEADING Republicans believe they can trounce Barack Obama in the presidential election by tarring him as a shady Chicago socialist.

F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access  —  WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court …

Al Gore to the Rescue?  —  Stumper's Take: He foresaw global warming.  He “took the initiative” on the Internet.  And he knew exactly how Iraq would turn out.  Who's to say that Al Gore hasn't known all along that the Democratic race would descend into some weird state of gridlock …

Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote  —  Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District.  Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

Dems 2008: Historians for Hillary  —  Sean Wilentz and Julian E. Zelizer, who teach US political history at Princeton University, do not actually endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential bid in their Sunday WaPo op-ed, “A Rotten Way to Pick a President.”  But their complaints about …

Where is Obama on Gun Rights?  —  Not surprisingly, here, there and everywhere.  —  He believes (as do I) that the Second Amendment conveys an individual right to bear arms.  But, he supports reasonable regulations on those rights.  So where does reasonable regulation end and infringement on an individual's rights begin?

A Smiling McCain, Learning to Rein Himself In  —  WASHINGTON — So this is what it looks like when the maverick becomes The Man.  —  Senator John McCain was sitting in the front of his fancy-pants front-runner's plane, trying to get comfortable.  He fidgeted, occasionally lapsing …

These Kinds Of Sexist Remarks Are Not What I Am Looking For … In a campaign marked by news coverage unrelenting in its sexism and misogyny, especially from NBC, the last thing we can afford is sexism from the frontrunning candidate.  Barack Obama needs to apologize for this remark.

Study Says Payday Lenders More Prevalent In Areas Of High Christian Conservative Power  —  A law professor and associate professor of geography set out to create the most comprehensive map of U.S. payday lenders to date.  What they found, to their surprise, was “a surprising relationship between populations …

Margaret Carlson's Anti Hillary Email  —  Nice email, huh?  A reader sent it to me.  Really exposes the arrogance of Bloomberg News's Margaret Carlson, doesn't it?  Op-ed columnists, however, can say whatever they want, but they should not split hairs about the true motives behind their agenda …

It's Easy To Be Brave From A Distance  —  From the safety of the Home of Economy store he manages in North Dakota, Pajamas Media blogger Rob Port takes the students of Northern Illinois to task for not throwing their laptops at the gunman in the recent shooting tragedy there:

Feminists For Clinton  —  A very well written letter from a group of feminist intellectuals who support Hillary Clinton was e-mailed to me, also at HuffPo.  I reprint it on the flip:

President's Radio Address  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  At the stroke of midnight tonight, a vital intelligence law that is helping protect our nation will expire.  Congress had the power to prevent this from happening, but chose not to.  —  The Senate passed a good bill that would have given …