Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., is reportedly about to resign his seat in Congress.
Top Romney advisor Dan Senor says the election result shows there is “some kind of systemic crisis today in the world of polling.”
Are we done talking about Climate Change after a short two week discussion after Hurricane Sandy? We’re discussing that now at TPMPrime.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) denies that criticisms of Susan Rice are racially motivated: “The only color I’m worried about when it comes to Benghazi is red, blood red.”
Dan Senor: “There is some kind of systemic crisis today in the world of polling, I think particularly on the right-of-center polling. The modeling was way off.”
Another report from the GOTV trenches, from an anonymous TPM Reader …
I read with interest the letter from the Idaho man who was a volunteer in the Obama campaign in Ohio. Here is the perspective of a volunteer in a heavily Democratic state which is close geographically to a “swing” state and participated in the Obama campaign.
It seems the soul-searching phase lasted about two weeks for Dean Chambers, founder of the Unskewed Poll Movement and creator of unskewedpolls.com. Dean has just launched BarackoFraudo.com, a new site dedicated to explaining how President Obama won the 2012 election by fraud.
At 3pm eastern, we’re hosting a live chat in Prime with Ruy Teixeira, a Senior Fellow at both The Century Foundation and American Progress. He’ll be talking about the new Democratic majority-where did it come from? Can it be maintained? And if so, how? Start submitting your questions right now.
The World Bank has released a new report (.pdf) on climate change that is ostensibly focused on the dire consequences of a rise in average global temperatures by 4 degrees Celsius. That in itself is significant insofar as the Copenhagen Accord of 2009 agreed that it was crucial to cap the worldwide temperature increase at 2 degrees Celsius.
To be clear, no one then — and certainly no one in the three years since — thought we would be able to avoid blowing through the Copenhagen ceiling (although the World Bank report still holds out such hope). That has become seen as inevitable since no substantial or meaningful agreement has been reached on reducing carbon emissions. If you’re interested, Bill McKibben wrote about these numbers in Rolling Stone over the summer. Read More