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Tom Humphrey gets the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, who have been running relatively positive campaigns against one another so far, to dish a bit on their true feelings about their opponents:

Matt Pulle over at the Nashville Scene got up early this morning so that we didn't have to. The "debate" between Eric Stansell and Mike Stewart took place at 9:30 at the East Nashville Police Precinct, and according to Pulle, fans of contrast would've been disappointed.

Everyone likes to talk about PACs and lobbyist but nobody likes to talk about the bundles:

Barack Obama has opted out of public funding for his presidential campaign.

Good.

I’ve never understood taking public funding in the first place. Oh, I know there is a science behind government and politics. There is also science behind bacteria growing.

This is what happens when repugnuts run the country and instill their reactivist judges to the bench, and I don’t just mean the Supreme Court.

Oh, my. The pearl clutching from our Media Elite over the resignation of Jim Johnson from the Obama campaign! It’s astounding!

Jake Tapper explains that Barack Obama isn’t the only one who has tapped a lobbyist to vet his potential Vice Presidential candidates:

Lost in the weekend's maelstrom of reanimated English Only and of the Planning Commission controversy was PiTW reporter Matt Pulle's scoop on a Waller Lansden lawyer who is "the most prolific lobbyist at the