Local Dems in Indiana’s 5th District freak out at House nominee Tim Crawford, begging him to drop because they say he’s an inept right-wing freak.
This is a story that deserves a lot of attention — from the sane people. A full scale right-wing freak out over the Muslim cultural center planned to be built near Ground Zero.
Not long ago Harry Reid looked like he might go the way of Chris Dodd. And he still has a hell of a battle on his hands for reelection. But for an interlocking series of reasons, things seem at least a little brighter than they did only a couple months ago. (The latest poll shows him neck and neck with his probable opponents compared to the ten to fifteen point deficits he faced only a couple months ago.) And one of the biggest reasons has been a staggering series of unforced errors by his would-be competitors. Read More
On Jimmy Fallon’s show last night, NBC’s Ann Curry relived her epic commencement address fail. Watch.
I confess I’ve found the whole premise of the Sestak controversy maddening and faintly ridiculous since horse-trading political jobs is something that every president does. And no one with any knowledge of the law thinks it can possibly be illegal. But now that it turns out that Bill Clinton, reportedly, was the one who offered Sestak the job can we just agree it’s settled since Clinton was already impeached?
South Carolina blogger Will Folks won’t disclose the details of the affair he alleges he had with leading GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley — at least not all at once. Rather, he’s dropping some new revelation each day into his blog. Call it death by a thousand blog posts.
In today’s installment, Folks releases phone records showing hundreds of calls between the two back in 2007, when the affair allegedly occurred. Many of the calls lasted for hours and stretched late into the night. Suggestive? Yes. Conclusive? Not so much: Folks was working for Haley at the time.
Nancy Pelosi’s speech on the House floor before the DADT repeal vote. Text after the jump … Read More
As we’ve noted, Carly Fiorina has rocketed into a seemingly commanding lead over the last couple weeks in the California GOP senate primary — largely based on a big saturation TV buy, much of which ran while her main competitor, former Rep. Tom Campbell wasn’t on the air at all. But in the final stretch to the June 8th primary, Campbell actually has more money on hand than Fiorina.
Late Update: Or make that, Campbell had more money on hand until Fiorina loaned her campaign another $1.9 million just after the reporting deadline. See our report above for the update.