Dylan Scott explains why Democrats think they’re in a stronger position than the polls suggest.
Editor who green-lighted Obama watermelon cartoon says it was “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.”
For years there was a constant refrain in American politics which would speak of two electorates, even two elections: election results among white people and then the results when you counted the votes of black people. There were more denigrating and racist versions of this talk. But the most revealing were the versions that weren’t consciously racist at all. They were at their peak of popularity in the 80s and 90s and went something like this: “Democrats haven’t won the white vote in decades. Without blacks, they’d barely be holding on as a national party.”
A second health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola.
It seems increasingly hard to believe there weren’t some major breakdowns in safety procedures at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Ed Kilgore on how the GOP justifies its crusade against “voter fraud.”
There’s a horrific story out tonight about Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist, blogger and gaming critic, who has pulled out a speech she was going to give at Utah State University after an emailer threatened a “Montreal Massacre style attack” if her speech wasn’t canceled. To get a feel for the sort of character we’re talking about, the anonymous emailer – purportedly a student at the University – said “feminists have ruined my life and I will have my revenge, for my sake and the sake of all the others they’ve wronged.”
In practical terms, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has stepped in and reinstated the Texas voter ID law. In legal terms the appeals court issued a stay of the lower court order that threw out the law last week. The rationale for the appeals court decision? We’re too close to the election to disrupt the status quo.
Holder claims “vindication” for his crackdown on voter suppression tactics in aftermath of a federal judge’s ruling that Texas’ voter ID law had a “discriminatory purpose.”