So not terribly shockingly (for Santa Cruz) but very lamely someone apparently roughed up a trick or treater who was dressed up as a Fox News reporter. It took me a few minutes to remember. But when I heard this I thought, wait, this sounds familiar. Well, it goes back to 2008 when my wife and I dressed up for Halloween as Joe the Plumber (me) and Ashley Todd (her).
Don’t remember Ashley Todd?
State judge in Kentucky declines to block that controversial Mitch McConnell mailer.
National Review undertakes exegesis of Lena Dunham book and concludes she’s a sex abuser, which prompts Dunham to launch into a “rage spiral” on Twitter.
In his on-going effort to appeal to DC elites as a different kind of Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says it’s “dumb” of Republicans to emphasize their support for voter ID laws which have been shown repeatedly to cut voting rates for minorities and poorer voters. He still they’re awesome. But it’s “dumb” to make a big deal out of them because black voters can get the wrong impression. Watch.
Does basically everyone under the age of 40(?) wonder why Ben Stein is even famous? A Nixon speechwriting gig can carry you for a long time.
Santa Cruz would definitely be on my short list of towns where you could get attacked for wearing a Fox News costume for Halloween.
A flurry of polls have been released over the last 24 hours, all of which you can follow at PollTracker. But here are a couple of notable ones in the key Senate races that have come out this morning:
John Oliver on ALEC and the crazy emerging from state legislatures. Watch.
Joni Ernst says Tom Harkin wouldn’t have been commenting on her looks — he compared her to Taylor Swift — if she were a man.