Interesting column by Amy Sullivan today on the role a candidate's religion should or should not play in the campaign this year.

And as long as you're there at The Gadflyer, Paul Waldman does a very nice job of explaining when to hyperventilate about polls.

What was that Amy Sullivan comment I linked to a couple days ago about Bob Woodward being "the official Bush White House shill?" According to this Boston Globe story: "Campaign advisers are so convinced that national security issues play to Bush's strength that they have posted a link on the Bush-Cheney re-election Web site to the new book by Bob Woodward, 'Plan of Attack,' despite several disputes they have over facts and a portrayal of Bush as driven to war by an unrelenting Vice President Dick Cheney without input from Secretary of State Colin Powell." (emphasis mine)