If you’re going to dedicate the next three days to 72 hours of campaign watching obsession, don’t miss Jon Ralston. His blog is here and his twitter feed is here. He’s the political reporter on Nevada politics and from having watched him now for a few years seems to understand the nitty gritty political dynamics of the state at least as well anyone else out there. Not a chin-stroker mainly but someone who’s really focused on the numbers and details. Read More
On the campaign trail Romney supporters are now apparently turning on the press …
Romney press corps getting more heckling today:”DO YOUR JOB!” Guy throws a thumbs up to Fox’s Carl Cameron. “Good job, Chris!” he says
— Holly Bailey (@hollybdc) November 3, 2012
It’s not clear to me that this will have a big effect in practice. But it is amazing, even at this late date and having been knocked down by the courts so many times, that Ohio Secretary of State John Husted continues to look for every way possible, even in the most marginal and petty of ways, to restrict voting in his state. Nothing really more to say than that. But the cynicism is really breathtaking.
Here’s what Nate Silver points to as the best conservative counter-argument, devil’s advocate take on how to understand the polls going into Tuesday. It’s very shrewd by a guy named Ted Frank and worth reading. He does significantly misstate one argument I make and which he references.
One point about his argument that I found interesting was the question of whether polls consistently understate Republican support in presidential polls. It’s an interesting argument and question. Silver looks at races back to 1972 and concludes not that polls lack partisan bias but that they’ve been biased in either direction about an equal amount of times. And the numbers clearly back him up. Read More
Three days out from election day. How are you feeling? What do you expect on Tuesday night?
We’re bring you developments as they happen here. A second suspicious package was found at that early voting center in Winter Park, Florida. It has now also been detonated by local authorities. We’ll bring you more when we have it.
Late Update: Police give all clear.
Today’s charts on the big races around the country. Three days out. Here they are.
Early voting site evacuated in Winter Park, Florida after emergency personnel were called about a suspicious package. No sign yet that’s it’s actually a device. Just precautionary. Police and Fire Depts currently investigating.
Christie says he’s “still very satisfied” with Obama disaster response.