It’s one of the most reliable truisms of politics: you can’t put too much stock in polls until the race in question really begins in earnest. Just ask President Giuliani. But it’s always something when you actually see it happening. A new poll just came out this morning showing Steve Poizner in a dead heat with Meg Whitman (Whitman 39%, Poizner 37%), even though Whitman has been miles out ahead of Poizner for months. She even seemed so strong that Tom Campbell basically bagged out of the governor’s race and switched to the Senate primary where he’s probably going to beat Carly Fiorina — the other GOP-anointed candidate. (There had been a couple recent polls showing Whitman’s lead shrinking fast — but the two main ones were partisan polls.) Read More
George Alan Rekers has resigned from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
Consistency, they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
Charlie Crist’s website gets a post-Indy run scrub down …
I give headline of the day award to our Rachel Slajda: Is Two-Family Man Vito Fossella Considering Another Run?
We’re not sure what this is about. But the White House has sent out word that Beau Biden, the Vice President’s son, has been hospitalized for some as-yet-unspecified reason.
Jon Stewart: “Why is it that whenever something happens, that the people who should have seen it coming, didn’t see coming, it’s blamed on one of these rare, once in a century perfect storms that for some reason take place every f*****g two weeks?” Watch.
Everybody hates the bailouts — liberals, conservatives and everyone in between. So can anyone admit that they were amazingly successful and cost only a fraction of what people first thought?
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On GMA this morning Vice President Biden not only defended Elana Kagan on the silly charge that she’s anti-military but actually said that Kagan “was right” to bar military recruiters from Harvard Law School.
Now, I get the logic of banning military recruiters as a protest of the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law. And it’s not completely clear to me just what Biden meant to say. I think he was just stumbling on his words. But I don’t think it’s sustainable for a sitting Vice President to say that it’s right to ban military recruiters from university campuses. I suspect a walk back is soon to follow.