Is writing a newsletter governmental or political?

"There's a lot of tightening in these races," said Charles Cook, who publishes a nonpartisan political newsletter.

Her father is the publisher of The Washington Spectator, a political newsletter.

In the mid-1990s, he was asked to write a column for a weekly political newsletter that was mailed out across the Southeast.

In addition he published a political newsletter, The Burro Chronicles.

Charles Cook, who publishes an independent political newsletter, said that given the extraordinary closeness of the 2000 elections, "this whole suburban thing is key."

Wood cited his "first job on my own" as Chief Ob-stacle, a continuing series of strips for a 1949 political newsletter.

"That's the problem," said Stuart Rothenberg, the editor of an independent political newsletter in Washington.

"He gave in," said Alexandre Barros, publisher of a widely read political newsletter here.

With six former law school classmates, he began planning a political newsletter that could accommodate all he was learning about business and law.