Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes, a book about the 1988 race for the White House, stressed the notion of presidential contest as ordeal. It also promoted the formula that great candidate = great president.

Wrong, says Mark Halperin, senior political analyst for Time magazine.

Here's a piece I did for CTV.ca on Saskatchewan's provincial election. The vote takes place Wednesday.

Given that Saskatchewan is the province that gave us the Mossbank Debate, it sounds like the quality of political discourse in the province I called home for10 years has precipitiously declined.

Leading U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has told a whopper about the chances of surviving prostate cancer in the United States versus the socialized medicine hellhole of Great Britain. The NYT's Paul Krugman is wondering why the U.S. political press isn't calling Rudy on his fib.