No Particular Order: Monday's wash

A roundup of political stories affecting our region

WaPo Fix: Huckabee leads in new Iowa survey (is it really 2012 already?!)

http://bit.ly/cKGIsj

Politico: Rs stiffen line on Islam

http://politi.co/aj5r3X

WaPo: Ds divided over strategy for midterm elections

http://bit.ly/bvIIzy

Balz: `Desperate Ds pin hopes on scary Republicans’

http://bit.ly/bNsLdP

WaPo: Should Ds run from Obama?

http://bit.ly/9Inewl

WSJ’s Taranto: Obama `a stubborn man w/o conviction’ on mosque

http://bit.ly/ai0BeB

Politico poll: DC insiders rate Congress higher

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41036.html

Linda Greenhouse: US culture already is redefining marriage

Including this soundbite: `The notion of legally sanctioned same-sex marriage seemed too far-fetched to ponder, until it didn’t.’

http://nyti.ms/bCYU7P

WaPo: James J. Kilpatrick dies

http://bit.ly/ayy20c

Gail Collins: My favorite August (spoiler alert: It’s about women’s suffrage)

http://nyti.ms/dnGBA6

Douthat: interesting essay on `Islam in the Two Americas’

http://nyti.ms/aDr2QO