“Nate Silver” on The Daily Caller

Nate Silver, the baseball stats fanatic turned New York Times polling guru, says next month’s Iowa caucuses are wide open — “with as many as five plausible winners.” (more)

Rand Paul, the Republican opthamologist and son of a libertarian firebrand, on Tuesday evening became the first Tea Party standard-bearer to be elected to the nation’s highest legislative body, defeating Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. (more)

The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans have little chance of picking up the 10 seats in the Senate that they need to take control of the chamber. (more)

“Tired of being cooped up in the legislative sausage-making factory?” asks “West Wing” actor Bradley Whitford, now sporting a mustache, in a new ad targeting Hill staffers. (more)

Democrats very badly want Pennsylvania’s Senate race to be close. It’s the tip of the spear in their push this week to capitalize on a few glimmers of momentum around the country. (more)

To commemorate this week’s launch of the news blog Eye Street here at the Daily Caller, we’re ditching the blogroll for something more personal — a quick recap of some of our favorite political hotspots, and why we love them. (Note: Some readers have emailed asking whether this is an entirely exhaustive list of smart bloggers. The answer is yes.) (more)

The verdict was in on Twitter even while President Obama’s second question-and-answer session in the last week was still ongoing: It was a bust. (more)

The backlash was fast and furious on the left over the news Monday night that President Obama will freeze spending for parts of the federal budget for the next three years. (more)