WELL, THEY CALL HER THE FRONTRUNNER: “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has won tens of millions of dollars more in federal earmarks this year than her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though two of them have significantly more Senate seniority. A review of the first three appropriations conference reports finished by Senate and House negotiators shows that Clinton has successfully requested at least $530 million worth of projects.” This’ll make it kind of hard for her to take advantage of the Republicans’ vulnerability on pork, though.