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ANA MARIE : Today's feature story, by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei , has this lede: "Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger - the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private." Is that true ? Really? That is their lede .

President Barack Obama has had difficulty finding his running legs in the early going of his campaign for a second term, according to Politico.

Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei : "Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger - the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private.

Politico reports that Democrats and Republicans are increasingly worried about the role Super PACs will play in this year's presidential election.

Good Monday morning , and thank you for the kind messages and wishes while we were fishing last week.

Rush Limbaugh's ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports .

Recall: despite his categorical disapproval of super PACs, President Obama is nonetheless the beneficiary of the efforts of an unaffiliated super PAC with the unfortunate appellation Priorities USA Action.

Politico 's Mike Allen took a shell shocking five consecutive days off last week.

Big donors have vaulted Mitt Romney into a neck-and-neck arms race with President Barack Obama's formidable fundraising machine.

Obama ended April with combined cash stockpiles of $144.3 million from his campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising operation, according to campaign finance reports released Friday.

The finale for the first season of what may be ABC's most thrilling Washington-based political drama "Scandal" ended last night.

Source: Politico A small but increasingly vocal group of fresman Republicans are publicly rejecting the idea they are beholden to Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform pledge for their entire congressional careers.

Today is Politico Mike Allen 's second day off since August 2009. Once again Politico has oddly gone off the reservation of its Arlington headquarters to find his replacement.

Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry's 2004 campaign manager, is joining the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA as a consultant on strategy and spending, the group confirms to POLITICO.

Democratic super PACs are planning a fundraising bonanza -- or as they call it, a "Super-O-Rama" -- at the Democratic National Convention.

It's an open secret these days that some of the big boys at Politico are butting heads with Roll Call Columnist Stu Rothenberg .

Good for Politico Playbook writer Mike Allen ! It's apparently been 990 long arduous days since he has taken a day off.

That's the question posed by D.C.-based society magazine Washington Life in its May issue, which highlights 100 individuals who "show the depth and breadth of power in Washington and beyond." So who made it? Team Obama figures prominently, from David Axelrod to Bill Burton to Anita Dunn to Jim Messina to Julianna Smoot.

Not do them HARD!" To wit, rather than pick some untested non-white or non-male running mate, they were going to look for an "incredibly boring white guy." Well, one person who was included in that intensely ecru mix of possibilities, Tim Pawlenty, says that he won't be that incredibly boring white guy.