My piece from yesterday about how states are one of the few things keeping politics functional in the USA today was inspired by the Colorado secession movement, whose leader we interviewed today. But that post got into the question of how much people today are self-selecting into increasingly homogenous states.
TPM Reader JM gives us his story …
After 6 weeks of bungled rollout and a month of horrific press, public support of and opposition to Obamacare remains exactly where it was the day before rollout.
Leader of Colorado’s secessionist movement says the problem they’re fighting is the “urbanization of America.”
Just your average cell phone vid of drug addled Mayor in rage-rant threatening to murder people. The latest from Mayor Ford.
And just for if you’re keeping score at home, this does not seem to be the fabled ‘Second Rob Ford Tape.’
So get this. Rick Scott, Tea Party Governor of Florida is running ads on MSNBC attacking former Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist as a phony Democrat, quoting Dem politicians slamming Crist back during his GOP days.
Nothing wrong with that; actually sounds pretty shrewd. The ads are legit in the sense that they are identified as paid for by the Scott-affiliated 527 group, Let’s Get To Work. But of course there’s no mention of Scott and the Governor doesn’t have to be on MSNBC saying the familiar “I’m Rick Scott and I approve this message.” Which presumably might deflate the effect among the target audience of committed libs and Dems.
