Clock Is Ticking for ’08 Hopefuls

• By Erin P. Billings and Lauren W. Whittington
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 27, 2007, Midnight

With just four months to go until the first 2008 presidential balloting, the clock is quickly ticking on the political life of the second-tier White House candidates, and it appears that Congress will play host to the race’s first casualties.