In Today's Observer
Jason Horowitz reports on John McCain's big week in New York.
Observer Classics features Josh Benson on Al Gore.
Joe Conason doesn't think anyone is laughing at Al Gore anymore.
Julia Gorin doesn't believe the right should embrace Hillary.
Anna Schneider-Mayerson reports on Scooter Libby's difficult defense.
Jason Moring rounds up political self-help books for Democrats.
Michael Calderone and Tom McGeveran write about the Tower of Mike.
In the editorials: the Pataki legacy.
You are wrong: in 1990 Pierre Rinfret & George Yancey, Jr. were the republican candidates for Governor & Lt. Governor. Pataki did not appear on the ballet until 1994. And by the way to clear up a popular myth: in Pataki's last two elections, he would have won by nearly half a million votes without a single vote being cast for him on the conservative party line. But otherwise, the Pataki critique is not far off; the simple fact being he had terrible advisors after Mike Finnigan left.