Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were campaigning in a strange place yesterday — the United States Senate. It’s like when you have a job for a few years, and then stop showing up at that job to do something else, and then go back to see your old pals who never ask, “Why have you not been at work for 14 months?” Karl Rove invented this concept. But if you think that “campaigning in the Senate” is simply another mediocre joke, it is that, but also something else: the two candidates agreed to play nicer in a secret conversation yesterday — on the floor of the Senate, surrounded by reporters. MORE »