From Dean Debnam, President of PPP polling: “In just three weeks Barack Obama has nearly doubled his lead over Rick Perry. That would seem to be an indication that Perry’s comments about Social Security are giving him trouble with swing voters.”

Rick Perry on cheers for the death of a (hypothetical) 30 year old man without insurance: “I was a bit taken aback by that myself.”

Feinstein, Petraeus say it’s time for war-time contractors to go.