Brian Beutler joins us at 2 PM at TPMPrime for a live chat about everything and anything you want to ask him about. Brian’s our Senior Congressional Correspondent and our house expert on fiscal policy and taxes and all that good stuff. Get your questions in now.
Professor Charles Franklin joins us at noon at TPMPrime for a live chat about polls and polling. He’s one of nation’s top experts on public opinion data and polling methodologies. He’s our outside consultant for PollTracker and is also running the current Marquette Law School poll of Wisconsin. Get your questions in now.
National polls, tracking and otherwise, from the last 24 hours
PPP Obama +1
Rasmussen Tied
Reuters/Ipsos Obama +3
IBD/TIPPP Obama +.5
RAND Obama +5.7
UCONN: Obama +3
Gallup Romney +7
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Rep. Joe Walsh hails invention of the new “never die” machine which makes health and life of the mother exception for abortion irrelevant.
Video highlights of Romney and Obama at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in NYC. Watch.
TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 259, Romney 237 as Iowa slips from Toss-Up to Lean Obama.
Obama and Romney addressing the annual Alfred E. Smith dinner/roast in New York City. Things just getting under way there now. Watch.
A man working for a company hired by the Virginia Republican Party to register voters has been arrested and charged with destroying voter registration forms after he was spotted this week throwing the forms into a dumpster at a shopping center in Harrisonburg.
I think this is the first time I’ve said one candidate in a debate called the other candidate a “low-life scumbag” and I wasn’t speaking figuratively.