Matt Bai writes about the Democratic potentials for president in a Sunday New York Times Magazine profile of recent Virginia governor Mark Warner:
There are, as yet, no announced candidates for the 2008 Democratic nomination, and even those who expect to run probably won’t make their final decisions before the end of the year. But the […]

John Marelius of the Union-Tribune reports on a recent Field Poll:
Although illegal immigration is emerging as one of the hottest topics of the 2006 election, public concern about the issue in California has declined over the past decade, according to a new Field Poll.
In 1996, 53 percent of adult Californians questioned by the nonpartisan Field […]

Congratulations to all 4 of my clients in Hidalgo County - JD Salinas, Ricardo Rodriguez, Oscar Garza and Laura Hinojosa - on their victories in yesterday’s elections!

The Daily News opines today about corruption:
Politicians who wonder why the American public is so cynical about politics need only look at the last few days’ news.
The Daily News was talking about the recent coverage of Martin Ludlow and Duke Cunningham, but they could have well have been talking about last week’s stories related to […]

Joel Rubin of the Los Angeles Times reported in this morning’s paper about today’s vote by LAUSD on the city public arts high school. Rubin finished with a quote from my wife:
Last year, the [LAUSD] board approved an agreement with Discovering the Arts, a nonprofit fundraising organization formed to help cover the additional costs of […]

John J. Miller of the National Review writes about “Henry vs. Ciro: The First Important Election of 2006.”
President Bush’s poll numbers are weak — but are they so lousy that his embrace of a congressman at the State of the Union address will sway Democratic voters in a Texas primary election today?

Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal reports on the efforts by Wal-Mart to counteract bad press by reaching out to blogs:
“Yes, we reach out to bloggers in the same way we reach out to reporters,” says Mona Williams, Wal-Mart spokeswoman. “A lot of people are looking to bloggers for their news source, and this […]