High school valedictorian, college football standout and UW-educated lawyer who built a career in his hometown, where a mayor told him at age 12 he should consider public office.
You can't play if you can't pay. At this early stage, candidates Tim Burgess, Mike McGinn, Charlie Staadecker and Ed Murray have broken the six-figure barrier.
A famously bitter election 180 years ago illuminates much of the present race and the persistence of the mythology of the backwoods Westerner riding in to smite the elitists. Obama better watch how...