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The new national PPP poll sponsored by Daily Kos and SEIU shows Mitt Romney with a 4 point lead over Barack Obama, hitting the 50% mark.
Picture of the day: Paul Ryan washing clean pots.
Tommy Thompson’s son apologizes for birther joke.
Soup Kitchen calls out Paul Ryan for using them for a drive-by photo op and for cleaning pots that weren’t even dirty.
Soup kitchen to launch new “You Didn’t Wash That!” slogan.
I think Molly Ball is on to something here. I’ve been thinking the same — the debate, the Univision Interview and the convention speech, though she points to the 60 Minutes interview too. It wasn’t just the debate. Obama had had a few similar outings in the month or so before Denver. They just got less attention.
I don’t agree that those events were already dragging Obama down. In themselves they didn’t matter. But they do tell me Obama just hadn’t prepped the way he should have for the high stakes live event.
You might think of these four members of Congress from New York as the canaries in the coal mine for the tea party movement.