Patrick Ruffini has a very good analysis (A Home Run For Moral Clarity) of President Bush's speech on the spate of white-collar crime revelations and the likely political impact of the issue. Also check his post from yesterday containing a draft from the next edition of Michael Barone's great and indispensable series. Here'e Patrick's intro:



A MAP OF BLOGGERVILLE It has come to my attention that the folks over at National Journal are planning to run a special chapter on Bloggerville in the 2004 Almanac of American Politics (a/k/a "the Bible") which is due out next year. Rants was able to obtain an early draft. I understand it relies heavily on the spatial mapping power of TouchGraph's Google Browser.