Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Clinton Rebounds as Closing Campaign Boosts Her Barely Ahead of Obama in Texas - Tied in Ohio!  —  Republican McCain leads in Texas and Ohio  —  UTICA, New York - On the strength of some strong campaigning in Ohio and Texas, Democrat Hillary Clinton …

Ask Tough Questions?  Yes, They Can!  —  SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.

The $2 Trillion Nightmare  —  We've been hearing a lot about “Saturday Night Live” and the fun it has been having with the presidential race.  But hardly a whisper has been heard about a Congressional hearing in Washington last week on a topic that could have been drawn, in all its tragic monstrosity, from the theater of the absurd.

Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere  —  Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths.  Some male bloggers tend to think women …

Hillary today: John McCain has more experience than Obama … From DailyKos: … Labels: hillary clinton, negative campaigning

Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort  —  Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans — the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race …

Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction  —  In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

A Defining Moment  —  The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night.  But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007.  —  On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak.

THE BIG STORY  —  Zogby has Clinton moving back ahead of Obama in Texas (47%-44%), a six point net move from the day before, and tied in Ohio (44%-44%), a two point move.  Bear in mind that Zogby is actually an outlier in having it even close in Ohio and there now seems little doubt that …

Gulf investors may not save Citigroup, Dubai executive says  —  DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones) — Mideast sovereign wealth funds may fail to save troubled U.S. banking giant Citigroup Inc. (C:, , ) unless more cash is pumped into the lender, the head of a $13 billion Dubai-owned investment firm said Tuesday.