Ted Sorensen, whose role in the creation of the public persona of John F. Kennedy made him JFK’s alter ego and who was a key figure in keeping alive the Kennedy legacy after the assassination, has died at 82.
President Obama issued the following statement on the passing of Sorensen: Read More
Mania about a Palin appearance or perhaps UFO continues at big O’Donnell rally in Delaware.
Our Evan McMorris-Santoro is in Delaware at the big O’Donnell Rally. And rumors are flying that Sarah Palin is about make a surprise appearance. See Evan’s updates in our live-updating TPM Midterms Wire.
To be clear: not a clue whether there’s anything to this rumor. I’m passing this on as an example of the atmosphere at the O’Donnell event, not a report about whether we think Palin is going to show up.
I’d figured the Ohio governor’s race was pretty much done. But maybe not. Strickland is still an underdog. But he seems to have seriously closed the gap against John Kasich. Two polls have come out in the last dozen hours. One with Kasich up by 1 and another with Kasich up by 2. That’s a race. Here’s the trend chart.
We’ve got Evan McMorris-Santoro en route to Wilmington for a Christine O’Donnell/Tea Party Express rally that’s set to begin at 3 p.m. ET. You can follow Evan’s reporting from the scene here.
Michael Steele: We need 39 seats to take the House, but even 37 seats would be a “success.”
We’ve gotten a TON of photos from readers overnight and this morning. We’re working fast and furious to add them to our reader slideshow. More still to come, but take a look and see what we have so far:
Thanks to all of you who sent in pics. We’re going to be enlisting readers to send in Election Day photos, too. More on that later today.
This reader account of the Rally4Sanity jumped out from the many we received:
We were about a third of the way back, and part of the pre-rally entertainment was watching people trying to climb the trees near the American History Museum.
One young woman had considerable trouble climbing, despite standing on outstretched hands. It was still too far to reach the lowest branch.
A report from WWE’s “Fan Appreciation Day” in Connecticut yesterday, just three days before the election to decide whether former WWE CEO Linda McMahon goes to the U.S. Senate.