Okay, I don’t think Mitt is going anywhere soon. But two new polls show Perry opening up a big lead over the Mittster nationwide. That dramatically changes the contours of the race and — most significantly — ends Romney’s inevitability, de facto nominee strategy.
It’s quite true that we don’t nominate presidents in nationwide primaries. The problem for Romney is that the actual states that are going to be deciding are considerably more conservative than the GOP electorate nationwide.
If you’re a high-profile political operative running a sock-puppet twitter account about one of your client’s competitors, make sure you remember which Twitter account you’re logged into!
Glenn Beck’s rally in Jerusalem had tears, courage, Fiddler on the Roof, even shofars, but apparently not that big an audience or John Boehner. Our report.
Romney declines to attend DeMint ring kissing session in South Carolina on Labor Day.
Samsung says it didn’t violate Apple’s 2005 patent on the iPad because hell the iPad was featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey back in 1968.
Whoever’s right, this is my kind of IP dispute.
CIA helped NYPD ‘mosque crawlers’ investigate Muslim communities it couldn’t investigate itself.
CBS’s Mark Knoller is the one of the journalists in DC who uses Twitter more effectively than maybe any other. And by effectively I mean usefully, as in to a productive journalistic purpose, not just as some sort of social media strategy. Bringing the whole idea of a White House reporter significantly into the 21st century. But over the last few months I’ve noticed a slowly increasing, more acid tone towards the President, verging into hostility. Perhaps that’s not surprising: the attitudes of the White House press corps are always one of the key barometers of how a president is doing.
But then I noticed his piece last night on the Obama debt record which read almost like a Republican press release. So I was interested to see this morning that our Brian Beutler had written a run-down of all the questionable reasoning, data and special pleading included in the piece. Take a look.
National Science Foundation clears Michael Mann of any wrongdoing in the “climate-gate” hoax/scandal.