Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Sandy or no Sandy.

Mitt Romney’s new Jeep ad is such a fabrication that even a lot of reporters who are usually timid about calling candidates out for falsehoods are finally making a fuss.

The question is, how big a fuss will it be. The Romney camp has been openly teling reporters for months — off the record — that they don’t really care if reporters and pundits say they’re ads aren’t true. They’ll just make it up with bigger ad spends. At the moment, most reporters still seem uncomfortable reporting the scale of Romney’s dishonesty with his new ad.

Bill Clinton is out pushing the message that Mitt Romney is planning to steal the credit for Obama’s economic recovery. And I confess I’ve worried about this myself. All signs point to positive signs in the economy and a real recovery underway now which will likely bear fruit in the early months of next year. If Romney manages to slip through, he’ll take credit for that and be further empowered in his rightwing agenda by a buoyant economy. It’s a frightening and infuriating thought to consider on many levels.

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New poll from Rasmussen shows Romney up by 2 in Ohio. That nudges Ohio just barely back into Toss Up territory on the TPM Electoral Scoreboard.

What are the polls telling us a week and a day before the election? Here’s my take.

TPM Reader WB makes a good point about the FEMA controversy. People who have contempt for critical government services tend not to run them well. Read More

Back when he was severely conservative during the GOP primaries, did Mitt Romney say he’d shut down FEMA and have the states take responsibility for disaster relief? Not quite in one declarative statement. But he certainly seemed to say that disaster preparedness and relief should be taken from the federal government and turned over to the states. Read More

There’s a lot of jousting and headfakery tonight about Wisconsin and whether it might be more in play than people realize. As Huffpo notes, Romney, Ryan and President Obama are going to make appearances in the state next week. So what do the numbers say? Read More

With 9 days to go before election day, I thought I’d take a moment to go over where the polls are as of today and what if anything they can tell us about what the headlines will be on November 7th.

If you’re a polling or data diehard a good bit of what follows may seem obvious. But not everyone’s a data nerd. So I want to go through a lot of data points and basic questions we get in one go. So here goes. Read More