Politics

When Republican congressional candidate Dan Dolan got to the Monroe County (Iowa) Courthouse on Saturday for his party's local convention, an aide asked the folks there if Dolan could speak right away.

As it turns out, according to The Quad City Times, Dolan was a couple hours early. And he ended up addressing the local Democrats by mistake.

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has been getting help from anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List as he campaigns this primary season, so far receiving nearly $500,000 in ads and other support.

Geoff Nunberg, the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, is the author of the book The Years of Talking Dangerously.

"My choice of words was not the best," Rush Limbaugh said in his apology. That's the standard formula for these things — you apologize not for what you said but for the way you said it.

Our friend Liz Halloran reports that Mitt Romney "might just win in the South" today as Republicans go to the polls in Alabama and Mississippi to pick between the four remaining candidates for the GOP presidential nomination.

As she writes: