"NBC News Political Director Elizabeth Wilner has decided to step down from her position at the network to take some time off and get a breather from the daily grind of political coverage before the 2008 campaign goes into overdrive," FishbowlDC reports.

"I want to take a step back and see what else is out there and do so before NBC got inconvenienced before we got too far into the campaign...It gets to be a grind after a while," Wilner says...