Herman Cain accused of hiding gay aide from religious conservatives.
Who is ‘Anonymous’ (the hacktavist group) and what are their motives? We looked at the court records and talked to some of their lawyers to find out.
One thing to bear in mind about the deficit/debt debate: Democrats are perfectly happy to talk about their vision for the role of government and how to achieve it, in part via higher tax rates, but a lot of the Republican hue and cry about the current budget “crisis” is intended to force Americans to embrace their vision for the future whether voters like it or not. Their argument at its essence is, you may not like our vision but at this point you don’t have any choice.
Brian Beutler observes how that dynamic played out at Tuesday’s meeting of the deficit supercommittee.
It seems only fitting. With 81 percent reporting, Republican Bob Turner holds a 53-46 lead over Democrat David Weprin — yet Weprin has refused to concede. The race to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacated seat has been called by every major news outlet, but the guy whose feckless candidacy cost his party what should be a safe seat still hasn’t clued in.
TPM’s Benjy Sarlin was at Weprin’s election night gathering and has our report.
In other special election news, Republicans prevailed as expected in the day’s other sex-scandal triggered race. The NV-02 seat opened up after Rep. Dean Heller (R) was appointed to replace Sen. John Ensign (R).
Polls close at 9 ET in the NY-9 special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s old seat. Results here.
Pennsylvania Republicans are planning to change the state’s way of apportioning electoral college votes, getting rid of winner take all. Since Dems usually win Pennsylvania that would have the effect of neutralizing the state in the Electoral College. And it could have a big effect on the outcome of next year’s election.