After a few hours figuring out whether they were being set up for a Lucy and the Football Scenario, Dems decide they just plain won on the payroll tax fight.
Rick Santorum didn’t just pick up a couple of low turnout caucus states and Missouri. He’s actually moving into the lead among Republicans nationwide. It’s simply amazing.
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House Republicans give up entirely on payroll tax front, agree to pay a clean, ten-month payroll tax cut extension.
We now have real evidence that Mitt Romney could have a race on his hands in the state of his birth and the one where his father was a longtime governor. PPP reported last night that its first night of polling in the state showed Santorum well ahead of Romney. And an ARG poll out this morning shows Santorum with a 6 point lead. I’ve always thought Mitt’s connections to Michigan are overstated — his father was governor in the 1960s, which is basically ancient history in political terms, and he hasn’t lived there since he was a kid. But if he were to lose there, where everyone assumes he should win, it’ll be a massive blow.
The Michigan primary is on February 28th.
So in the pretty unlikely scenario that the Republican nomination fight goes all the way to the convention, what are the rules governing what the delegates would be allowed to do? Here’s our primer.
President Obama’s approval rating just went back into positive territory in our TPM poll average.
Santorum tells George Stephanopoulos that Romney is getting “desperate.”
Pop star, model, and actress Whitney Houston has died at age 48, the AP reports.