I’m actually a fan of Eliot Spitzer. And I don’t think Elana Kagan is too shabby either. But I couldn’t help finding some degree of humor in this passage from Politico’s piece on the innuendo campaign in which the shaggiferous former governor vouches for Kagan’s heterosexuality.
Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don’t think it is my place to say more.”
The new daily tracking poll of the Pennsylvania Democratic senate primary is out from Muhlenberg. And it has Arlen Specter scraping back to a tie with Rep. Joe Sestak — 45% to 45%.
As we always note, tracking polls are inevitably wobbly and no one reading should be counted with too much weight. But perhaps the momentum has shifted or is shifting a bit. The current TPM Poll Average stands at Specter 44.7% to Sestak 40.8%.
And tomorrow there at least one and perhaps two major polls coming out on this race. The first, from Quinnipiac, should be out first thing in the morning.
Big news tonight out of West Virginia, where 14-term incumbent Rep. Alan Mollohan has been defeated in the Democratic primary. That seat has been held by a Mollohan for 45 of the last 57 years. Mollohan’s father, Bob, served a combined 18 years in two separate stints before his son succeeded him in 1983. The Mollohan era comes to an end at the hands of state Sen. Mike Oliverio, who outflanked Mollohan from the right — and has declined to say whether he would vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
The big news from Britain, according to Fox News, is that Queen Elizabeth herself has agreed to become prime minister:
Queen Elizabeth accepted the invitation of Conservative Party leader David Cameron to become Britain’s new prime minister Tuesday night after Gordon Brown resigned following his failure to form a coalition government with another liberal party.
That was awful nice of Cameron to extend the invitation.
(Special thanks to TPM Reader TW for the catch.)
We’ve gotten more information now on Beau Biden’s condition. He apparently suffered a stroke that his doctor describes as “mild.” The vice president’s son and Delaware attorney general is expected to make a complete recovery, his doctor says.
PM Gordon Brown is now at Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation; soon to be followed by David Cameron who the Queen will ask to form a government. It’s a Conservative-LibDem coalition government.
Carly Fiorina still getting all the press in California Senate race? Check.
Never-talked-about Tom Campbell still on track to clean her clock on primary day? Check.
It’s never easy running in your first election after you’ve done the old party switcheroo. Let’s stipulate to that. And it’s easy to bash Arlen Specter for being a Bush guy in one election and an Obama guy in the next.
But Arlen isn’t doing himself any favors with the new TV ad that he has running in Pennsylvania about how much Obama loves him. The new ad almost exactly mirrors a TV ad that Specter ran in his 2004 campaign about how much Bush loved him.
Indoor rally? Check. Blue curtain backdrop? Check? U.S. and Pennsylvania flags in the background? Check. A President bounding on to the stage? Check.
Compare the two ads after the jump: Read More