Quick '08 Update

- AdAge points to a Politico piece on proper polling that is worth checking out for anyone interested.

- Best video of the day: Joe Biden walking down the street, eating a sandwich, and challenging Rudy Giuliani. Crucial question: what kind of sandwich was it?

- The biggest piece of news today is that former President Jimmy Carter spoke about the U.F.O. he saw. This, of course, in context of Dennis Kucinich's comments from Tuesday's debate.

- Speaking of the debate, the Washington Post points out how Hillary Clinton has been regrouping from her performance. She has received a big endorsement and launched Hillblazers. And then there's her politics of pile-on video, which drew the Edwards campaign to respond in kind with a video of its own, the politics of parsing.

- Follow-up: One thing the "politics of pile-on" seems to have done is bring out a lot of comments describing Senator Clinton as "one strong woman." (An interesting contrast is Mark Penn's effort to show her as the most experienced candidate regardless of her gender.) Such comments led Matt Lauer to ask Barack Obama about the gender references on NBC's "Today Show."

- Chris Dodd took issue with the limited questions asked at the debate in this piece from the Huffington Post. Perhaps if we ditch the lightning round...

- Barack Obama is the focus of an upcoming New York Times Magazine piece. He also recently outlined both his views on Iran and his plan to end violence against women.

- According to John McCain, John McCain's record on abortion is "the most consistent of any of the major candidates."

- Governor Bill Richardson - who will be the first candidate to be interviewed by Playboy - received the endorsement of former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca. Perhaps Iacocca agrees the Larry Sabato and simply thinks that Richardson is unbeatable.

- More ads are going up: Barack Obama goes up on air in New Hampshire tomorrow with a new ad entitled "Need."; Mitt Romney is also up in New Hampshire with "Experience Matters."; Chris Dodd has two ads up: first, "Duet" and second, "View From The Shop."; Ron Paul is up on radio in New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, and South Carolina; and John Edwards is up in Iowa with "Heroes."

- Draft Gore.com launched its ad campaign yesterday. Check it out here.

- Fred Thompson had his first trip to Nevada today. Note the details of the disco ball and the mechanical bull in the article.

- And lastly, Colbert finds out about his candidacy from Carol Fowler, the Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party:

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