Okay, not really. This afternoon Citizens United released a poll it commissioned from the GOP pollster Wenzel Strategies. It has Romney up by 3 in Ohio. You’ll note it pushed Ohio back into the Toss Up column on our scoreboard. This is simply our methodology. We include partisan pollsters, as long as basic internal demographics are within reasonable bounds and certain details about the poll are released.
But this poll doesn’t strike me as having much credibility. Here’s why. Read More
With the aftermath of Sandy clear, Romney declares his love for FEMA.
I was just reading this Karl Rove piece that appeared yesterday in the Journal. In it Rove makes the case that Romney is the favorite to win the election next Tuesday. It’s a funny thing because not being a poll expert Rove’s arguments would make sense to me. He has various data that seems to hold up. Of course, I’m not totally wet behind the ears on these things. So I know a number of specifics points that he makes which are just wrong — either misleading and partial or, frankly, just totally false.
But on the big picture, what you hear nothing about in Rove’s argument is actual poll data. Actual state polls. There’s a heavy reliance on Gallup’s national numbers and various data points about early voting and crowd sizes and party ID. But actual polls? Not so much. Read More
Two of the best accounts I’ve read today of what it was like Monday night: One from Breezy Point, Queens and the other from Staten Island.
Reports that former Penn St. President Graham Spanier has been charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the alleged coverup of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Update: The AP is reporting the charges against Spanier are perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy.
Additional charges of endangering the welfare of children, obstruction and conspiracy have been added against athletic director Timothy M. Curley and university vice president Gary C. Schultz, both of whom were already charged in the coverup of the case.
Photographer Brett Marty has been in Ohio for the past few days chronicling both campaigns in the final days in the most pivotal state. Here’s a gallery of his work.
The RNC denies that it’s the source of funds for a new TV ad campaign for Todd Akin in the Missouri Senate race. That leaves the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which previously called for Akin to get out of the race and stopped supporting him financially — and the NRSC ain’t talking.