The take du jour on a YouTube video in which Rick Perry appears very um, forthright at a New Hampshire banquet is that it wasn't how a presidential candidate is supposed to behave, but he's in the interesting position ... Read More

Six degrees of corporations. Screenshot via Sunlight Labs. A network analysis of the connections between corporations, from Sunlight Labs*. Via Politico Morning Score, House Speaker John Boehner's political team today ... Read More

From the 2009 archives, Rick Perry 'splains Twitter. Also, via Politico's Mike Allen, two slightly different ads released today for South Carolina and Iowa. Mitt Romney buys search ads to try and horn in on Google ... Read More

Not-Herman Cain: "Nachos and hogwash." Also, sexual harrassment allegations for presidential candidates these days spawn live blogs and flood Twitter hashtags. (Video via Taegan Goddard) People with strong opinions ... Read More

A little late, here's a Q&A with Eric Schmidt and the Washington Post's Lillian Cunningham, after his September testimony before Congress. "So we get hauled in front of the Congress for developing a product that’s ... Read More

Wonkblogger Sarah Kliff points us to this Pew Charitable Trusts graphic on people who don't use banks. John Avlon asks if the rapid spread of Herman Cain's "smoking man" video is the beginning of the end for the ... Read More

Voting results in Labrador from the 2011 Canadian elections. Image: Stephen Taylor Here are Canadian general election results from the last five elections, the 2011 election included, mapped in Google Earth — and ... Read More

Halloween-themed ad season has begun with this anti-super-PAC one from Common Cause. Fighting back online against President Barack Obama's new "we can't wait line" — can't wait, that is, for Congress to take ... Read More

The "WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit" truck, an occassional visitor to Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, is a prank. Photo: Pameladrew212 / Flickr Addressing the media at a conference this morning in ... Read More

British MP Tom Watson is expected to stir things up today at News Corp's first post-phone hacking shareholder's meeting. The BBC reports he says he plans to "make fresh allegations about malpractice by News Corp ... Read More