TPM Reader NL tries to figure it out …
Help me out here. Can the TPM team think of a presidential scandal this empty and yet this persistent since Whitewater? I feel weird parallels in the diffuse accusations and shifting nature of the specific allegations.
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (R) adds her name to the chorus of Republicans dumping on Mitt Romney’s “gift” comments.
Despite all this week’s self-reflection, journalists haven’t completely woken up to the fact that David Petraeus is a skilled media operator.
Maine’s GOP chairman explains to TPM his concerns about black people and voter fraud:
I think we’re the whitest state in the country. So if you go to the polls and see people who are black, it’s unusual. And when you see a lot of people who are black, like six or eight or ten people, you think, ‘Wow, where do they live?’ That was my point.
After complaining loudly and publicly for weeks about not getting enough information from the administration about the Benghazi attack, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) skipped Wednesday’s classified briefing for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he sits on. CNN had the temerity to ask McCain about it today — and he was NOT happy.
In 1952 Adlai Stevenson was the presidential nominee of the Democratic party and lost. He was renominated in 1956 to face Dwight Eisenhower again. And again he lost. There are some other cases like this in American history. Grover Cleveland actually won two non-consecutive terms in office. William Jennings Bryant was nominated multiple times. Read More
Brian Beutler, our senior congressional correspondent, knows the policy and political dimensions of the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ better than anyone. And this afternoon at 4 PM he’s doing a Live Chat on the topic at TPMPrime. Get your questions in now.
I’ve been waiting for the post-election Downfall videos to start coming out. And here’s one someone just made. TPM even gets a mention!
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