techPresident has created a wiki devoted to information about staff members of the ‘08 campaign. I for one love the idea and have already contributed to it. (I will contribute more throughout).

Go check it out and contribute!

This is just random opinion but if we keep raising the debt ceiling every couple of years why in the world do we have a ceiling at all? We should at least change it from the debt “ceiling” to the debt “space”, as in limitless void. Ceiling implies there will come a point at which we stop being able to grow without a force pushing back.

Senate 2008 Guru points to some evidence that things aren’t looking good for Republican Senators in 2008.

Reports on Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Kentucky, Illinois.

You always want to meet expectations. Time and again I see it with stocks. Company is doing well, they make good products, have a nice market share, everyone is talking about how great they are doing, they give a big prediction about how well they will do in the next quarter. Then the end of the quarter comes and they don’t meet expectations, company’s stock tanks. Doesn’t matter what they’ve done, doesn’t matter what they will do, it just matters they didn’t meet their goal.

Meanwhile another company that has bad products, bad market share, bad press, bad everything makes a low prediction, they do better than expected, their stock rises. This is the expectations game and it works the same in politics.

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The NY Times Caucus Blog is reporting that Republican candidates are getting an interesting question “Is the federal government working on a NAFTA superhighway extending from Mexico to Canada?

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