Update, about 9:30 p.m., and the results are unsurprising but somewhat indefinite: Clinton wins PA, but the margin is undetermined. So far her lead has wobbled betw 4 percentage points and 10 at most, mostly in the 6-7-point range.

The pundits have chewed this one so hard they could regurg it and feed baby storks with it: anything into two digits wd represent a win for Clinton. Anything under 5-6-7 wd do little to help her. Betw those, a bit unclear. Et cetera.

What does seem to be clarified, once and for all, tonight is what peculiar individuals Terry McAuliffe ...   more »

Watching CNN and MSNBC dole out tidbits from exit polls is fun, in a way, but in an awfully cheesy way. Chris Matthews keeps trying out Tonight's Big Number--almost unfailingly something unimportant.

My idea of a big number is the statistic they haven't fed us yet. Here's one they have: 17 percent of Pennsylvania voters made up their minds just this past week or in the past few days, acc to MSNBC. Now, acc to an exit poll over at CNN earlier, of such voters--the only recently decided, i.e. since the televised ABC 'debate' acc to the commentators--the majority went ...   more »

133^rd in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. Summer, 2005                In the realm of Washington and New York media, Bob Woodward’s “Deep Throat” from Watergate years, former FBI agent Mark Felt, is big news, the subject of numerous media discussions about confidential sources and almost always compared to the CIA leak matter. After Mark Felt is exposed as Deep Throat by Vanity Fair magazine, scooping Bob Woodward, Woodward brings out a book on Felt and Watergate. On numerous occasions, Woodward is called upon to discuss the CIA leak matter, sometimes with Carl Bernstein; Woodward consistently ...   more »