There’s at least one “compromising” photo of South Carolina’s newest alleged political paramours, Will Folks and Nikki Haley, floating around out there, according to Folks.
Zack Roth takes a look at the little-known not-for-profit founded and run by Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul for the purpose of issuing board certification to ophthalmologists. Paul, himself an ophthalmologist, apparently set up his board as a competitor to the longstanding American Board of Ophthalmology, which certifies about 96 percent of the country’s ophthalmologists. But the professional ophthalmology groups we talked to had never heard of Paul’s National Board of Ophthalmology even though it’s been around since 1999, and we could only find a few physicians claiming NBO certification.
Sue Lowden, the chicken-barter-plagued candidate to take on Harry Reid in November, is attacking the new apparent frontrunnner Sharron Angle for alleged ties to Scientology.
Meanwhile, from the annals of crazily unforced errors, Lowden herself managed to get herself tripped up in the Civil Rights Act controversy.
Robert Reich on why incumbents still can’t quit Wall Street money.
Adm. Allen, the Coast Guard Admiral in charge of the Gulf spill operation, just said that as of now there is no oil coming out of the leak that BP attempted to stop yesterday with the “top kill” procedure. BP is saying it looks good so far but they’re not willing to say for sure that that’s true. And even if it is it doesn’t mean it will stay that way. But it seems there are some reasons for optimism.
Rob Simmons (R) said yesterday that he doesn’t think Linda McMahon can beat Richard Blumenthal. And since then he’s apologized for speaking his mind too freely. But I feel pretty confident that he’s right. She’s just the worst possible candidate to run against an opponent whose only real potential weakness or vulnerability appears to be to ‘character’ type attacks. Simmons didn’t have the money; but he would have been a more dangerous opponent.
At the same time, today’s Quinnipiac poll shows another lesson, which is that scandals that the media goes nuts about, seldom end up having the punch the media freak out would suggest. At least at the moment, Richard Blumenthal still holds a commanding lead over McMahon, fully 25 points according to the poll out today from the Quinnipiac.
In case you missed it last night, take a look at this email we got yesterday afternoon about the spill and the clean up.
The campaign of embattled South Carolina gubernatorial frontrunner Nikki Haley says Haley will address claims of an affair at the gubernatorial debate next Tuesday.
Haley’s campaign has gone to radio silence over the last two days and Haley herself avoided reporters today at the state House.