The latest on what the Senate map looks like after this week’s big developments. Hint: Dems doing the happy dance.
“Barbara Boxer meanders through episodes of The Daily Show like one of your mom’s friends.” Watch.
If you’re just getting over the last Mitt Romney Perils of Pauline drama in Michigan, get ready for the replay. The big prize on Super Tuesday — for a mix of delegate and electoral reasons — is Ohio. Rick Santorum had a double digit lead a couple weeks ago. And it’s decreased substantially since then. But even as Mitt Romney has gone back into the lead nationally, Rick Santorum is still holding on to a real lead. After the release of this morning’s new Q poll, the TPM Poll Average stands at Santorum 38.6%, Romney 28.7%, Gingrich 15.5% and Paul 11.2%.
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The apologetic Montana federal judge who admitted forwarding a racist email about President Obama has filed a complaint against himself with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Stop Mitt effort launched in Michigan by some progressives, “Operation Hilarity,” is expanding to Super Tuesday states.
Attila the Huh?
Former New York Governor George Pataki (R) makes a claim for all-time uncomfortable expression of party loyalty.
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The Senate will vote on the Blunt amendment shortly. You can follow the debate and the vote at TPMLiveWire.
I was … I am stunned to hear of the death of Andrew Breitbart. I don’t think there’s much of anything I agreed with him about, which is an understatement. My interactions with him were first friendly, then later heated and vexed, though maybe not unfriendly even then. He tweeted something at me yesterday, which I ignored. There are some people who live for the fight. It’s something I try not to be part of. Yet it’s a big, punchy, vivid and outrageously honorable tradition in the American public square. I cannot think of many people who lived more out loud than he did, more in primary colors. I remember thinking at some points even the name — the way it rolls off your tongue — has this rough, brickbat, unsmoothable sound: Breit / Bart. Read More
We’ve now confirmed Andrew Brietbart’s death with the Los Angeles coroner’s office.