The AP is reporting that West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) will appoint his former counsel Carte Goodwin to fill the Senate seat left empty by Robert Byrd’s death.
The latest poll of the Nevada Senate race gives Harry Reid a 7-point lead over Sharron Angle. That’s a 10-point swing since early June. On the TPM PollTracker chart, you can see the gains Reid has made across the board since Angle won the GOP nomination.
A magnitude 3.6 in the Maryland suburbs just after 5 a.m. this morning.
I slept through it. Anyone feel it?
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Some new details about the sexual assault allegation against Al Gore — and about his accuser.
The minor league baseball team in Charleston, S.C., plans to hand out Statue of Liberty figurines at Saturday’s game — with surprise Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene’s face on them.
Late Update: It’s worse than I thought. The team is simply taping a photo of Greene to a “Mr. Lady Liberty” statuette, and they’ve provided a photo of this “promotion” to New York magazine. Bill Veeck would be proud.
The “I Can’t Believe I Got Taken In” Update: I feel like I’ve been had! According to the AP, the president of the team, known as the RiverDogs, which is a Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees, is none other than Mike Veeck, Bill’s son. For those of you not sports fans or marketing gurus, Bill was a baseball executive famous for his promotional stunts: “All I ever said is that you can draw more people with a losing team, plus bread and circuses, than with a losing team and a long, still silence.” A Veeck strikes again.
I hate to jinx it, but BP has announced that they’ve closed the valves on the new cap installed on the Deepwater Horizon well and that, for the first time since the blowout in April, oil is not flowing from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.
We take a look at the delicate balancing act that Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) has to pull off to win re-election and the five issues where his vote matters most.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is bitterly denying that he is a birther or even birther-curious and says his remarks over the weekend were taken out of context by the “liberal thought police.”
The video of Vitter’s original remarks pretty much speaks for itself: “I support conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court. I think that is the valid and most possibly effective grounds to do it.
OK, maybe that’s overstating it. But the Senate has given final legislative passage to the financial reform bill. The vote was 60-39. It now goes to President Obama for his signature, expected early next week.
Late Update: Harry Reid just announced that Obama will sign the bill today. Stay tuned …
Later Update: Reid now saying next week after all.