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Is your check in the mail?

Think you know the meaning of working overtime? Consider Gov. Bill Richardson's campaign, where staffers say they must raise $20,000 a day for the next 17 days to keep getting the message out.

That's how many days are left, of course, until the Iowa caucus.

The campaign put out an e-mail asking for more cash to "get the governor's message out in front of every voter in Iowa and New Hampshire."

And if you think the campaigners are tired now, consider: The New Hampshire primary is Jan. 8, giving them just days to recover and regroup from the Iowa results.

The rumpled governor

The Washington Post checked in Sunday with a blurb about how Richardson has the most coveted title in the race: governor.

It also gave him some of his best free media of the campaign, saying he "draws his sharpest distinctions on Iraq" and has one of the "most ambitious" troop-withdrawal plans. The next sentence, though, probably didn't help Richardson too much, saying the plan is "viewed by many experts as unrealistic."

Oh well. You can't win them all. But the paper does give Richardson credit for his style, calling him a "low-key campaigner who strides onstage in a rumpled sports jacket and cowboy boots."

A few firsts

In last week's Des Moines Register debate, Richardson got two "firsts" according to the "Garling Gauge" blog, which keeps track of things like which candidate was first to wear a polka-dot tie (Sen. Chris Dodd).

The governor, it turns out, was the first to mention veterans during the debate and the first to call for an end to congressional earmarks - both good things to be first on.