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5-letter words: Will Obama-Biden go the way of Nixon-Agnew or Nixon-Lodge?

By Chris Steller | 10.29.08 | 4:53 pm

Nate Silver may have built his amazing site fivethirtyeight on the basis of his facility with the seemingly infinite number of baseball statistics, but I have an idea for a political campaign stats site — called simply “five”…

VP or not VP: Pawlenty would be first sitting governor tapped as veep since… Spiro Agnew

By Paul Demko | 04.30.08 | 10:24 am

Gubernatorial experience has proven a reliable steppingstone to the presidency in recent decades, with George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter all following that path to the White House. But few sitting governors have been…