The Gallup Daily Tracking Poll shows Hillary finally closing that deficit after a whole five or six days. She’s only losing by one point now. Call the election! Hillary wins forever, soon! Don’t, stop, thinkin’ about tomorrow…

But in real life, she actually does have some vague chance of winning Wisconsin tonight, even though she’s lost every primary election since Super Tuesday. Accordingly, those wombats at the Obama campaign have “lowered expectations” dramatically via their daily talking points. So either way, they win by 50 points, in the American Voter’s mind. MORE »

Being a political insider, golly, that must be neat. Oh, and to Ms. Kelly: No shit. [The Page]

I went to find important political information regarding the Michigan race on The Page, the news-aggregation website led by horserace political journalism guru Mark Halperin. Instead I found his “PageCast” which just has him in a robe. This clearly bodes well for Ron Paul in the Michigan, the Penis State. [The Page]

According to that know-it-all Mark Halperin, tonight’s Demrat debate in Las Vegas will allow each candidate to ask other candidates two questions. And the focus will be on “black and brown” issues, since it’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (which Hillary spent by making out with Lyndon Johnson’s grave). Given these format twists, it looks like Hillary and Barack won’t have to worry about that nasty racial tension anymore. [The Page]

The Time Magazine Man of the Year roadshow rolled into D.C. this morning at an ungodly hour despite the snow to get D.C. opinion leaders’ opinions on who Time should’ve chosen (since they’ve probably already decided) besides You, you narcissistic bastard. To help not decide, they invited Senator Sam Brownback, Representative Ellen Tauscher and Time Magazine employees Mark Halperin and Karen Tumulty. We don’t know why that group of people, really, but they fed us coffee and miniature pastries so that we couldn’t ask because our mouths were full.

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The moment we announced the death of The Note this morning, ABC’s publicity department alerted us that no, it wasn’t dead, and in fact, they found someone to write it! MORE »

Mark Halperin, former ABC News “Political Director,” is leaving the world of network punditry for the world of still appearing on TV constantly but with a different, more respectable little title on his chyron. That’s right, he’s going to Time. Eric Alterman’s head will explode. MORE »

The golden era of ABC News’ The Note is finally over. Mark Halperin is leaving his post as chief defender of the Bush Administration ABC’s “political director” so he can write more books that he’ll personally beg you to buy. MORE »

Well, they got his party right, at least. Mark Halperin might have a bit of trouble booking a ticket to cover the ‘08 Republican National Convention, as most airlines don’t offer direct flights to Minneapolis, Michigan. MORE »

Yes, it’s been a while. But you remember the drill. MORE »

Yesterday, distinguished members of the Gang of 500 received a very special email from Mark Halperin, author, founder of “The Note,” fellator of Drudge (after this week can we stop pretending Matt has an affect on the “news cycle” anymore? or, uh, The Note? or must we continue living in C-Span’s I Love the ’90s?). It was the usual bullshit (pretend memo from Hastert and Boehner’s offices), with a brief plug plea appended: MORE »