A lot of reporters seem to have gotten it into their heads that you can’t accuse Mitt Romney of both being hard-right and also a flip-flopper. I get the sense that even the Obama campaign has bought into this idea — though it’s less clear to me whether they just don’t think so because reporters have said it can’t work and you shouldn’t do it. Read More
Why am I not entirely surprised by this?
I just learned that when Jennifer Rubin ‘interviews’ you all she really does is call you up and yell at you
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) October 11, 2012
Context is everything. The state polls that came out last night and today can only be viewed in the context of the post-debate Democratic mega-freak-out. And in that context, they don’t look too bad for Obama. Read More
Going through the list of big donors to the Democratic-supporting super PAC Priorities USA Action you see familiar names like Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bill Maher. But then there’s Kareem Ahmed — a California businessman with no record of big-time political contributions to anyone before this year. So TPM’s Eric Lach set off to track down who he was and why he had suddenly poured more than a $1 million into Democratic politics. Here’s the story.
It’s pretty clear where Harry Reid is coming down on the choice between a more hard-nosed, more progressive tax reform plan and a more centrist, “bipartisan” one.
Elizabeth Warren: “I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago — until the Republicans brought them back.”
More from last night’s Massachusetts Senate debate.
Tea-leaf reading from yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments on affirmative action in university admissions.
New jobless claims fall to 339,000. Lowest weekly number since 2008.
Eric Lach has our in-depth story on an Obama megadonor who has come out of nowhere this year to become one of the largest contributors to Democrats.