In what’s becoming an annual event, FamousDC teamed up last night with the American Gaming Association to tip off  March Madness mayhem. Political debate was set aside for the most important contest of the evening – the NCAA basketball tournament. Guests mingled, buzzers beat and brackets busted as large screen TVs …

Erin McPike: Busting Out of the Gate: The Announcement Primer Four years ago, the combination of a depressed GOP and a revved-up Democratic Party engrossed in Obamamania made for a number of disappointing presidential launches. Other than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s mid-February speech at the Henry Ford Museum in …

Congrats to Erin on her new gig with Real Clear Politics. Her first story showed up today. Real Clear Politics: Portman Fine-Tunes Message in Key Senate Race

Politico’s Full 2010 Election Coverage Politics Daily: Tuesday Primary Election Results: Will the Incumbents Survive? Real Clear Politics The Fix: Incumbent Armageddon? Hotline On Call

…Where you wish you could take something back? Chris Matthews may be color blind [Real Clear Politics] /what if this guy said the same thing?

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Clinton machine was going to play the “expectations game” tonight – matter of fact, they’ve been playing it for quite some time. As we wrote here last week, it was critical for Team Clinton that the MSM label Obama as the …