Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure  —  Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another metric Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.

Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles  —  After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President's Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.  —  As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain …

Clinton, odds and 2012  —  My good buddy Kyle at Comments from Left Field is raising and smashing a line of argument about Hillary Clinton's motives for continuing in the Democratic primary despite having a minimal chance of actually achieiving her goals.  And this line of speculation …

25 Killed in Two Weeks; More Significant Number than 4,000  —  American forces have just experienced the most violent two-week period in Iraq since September 2007.  Unfortunately, I'm afraid this fact will be lost in the media coverage over the number 4,000 during the next several days.

JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid  —  JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to people involved in the negotiations.

Let's Not, and Say We Did  —  I shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama's speech last Tuesday.  —  It wasn't when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask?  Why not join another church?”

Democrats' Obama Dilemma  —  Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically.  By elevating the question of race in America, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate …

EASTER MASS ATTACK!!  Protesters Scream & Spray Fake Blood at Churchgoers  —  NOT JUST ANTIWAR...  Leftist Protesters Attack Catholic Worshippers at Easter Mass in Chicago  —  The Progressives squirted fake blood around on the Catholics attending Easter Mass this morning!!

Spitzer Pushed Staff's Effort to Smear Bruno  —  Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration's efforts last year to discredit the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, holding detailed discussions with senior aides, ordering damaging information about Mr. Bruno released …

PATERSON'S INN TROUBLE  —  Despite owning a house less than 20 minutes from the state Capitol, Gov. Paterson, as lieutenant governor, routinely used taxpayer money to stay at nearby hotels, The Post has learned.  —  Credit-card records obtained from the state Comptroller's Office covering …

McCain breaks spending limits  —  John McCain has officially broken the limits imposed by the presidential public financing system, according to spending reports filed last week by the campaign.  —  The senator from Arizona has spent $58.4 million on his Republican primary effort.

They Trained.  They Plotted.  Then They Bailed.  —  On Dec. 10, 2001, after completing his al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sajid Badat returned home to Britain.  Badat, a 22-year-old Muslim born in Gloucester, had an associate, a gangly man named Richard Reid …