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Have you heard of “unskewing” the polls? Meet the conservative heartthrob behind unskewedpolls.com.
As I’ve noted before, having been through several of these cycles, if you’re theory is based on systemic error on the part of basically all pollsters, you’re in for a long election night.
If you haven’t heard much about Tommy Thompson’s super subtle primer on “doing away” with Medicare and Medicaid, it’s probably because Thompson had already been in free fall for weeks when his remarks first surfaced.
But I wanted to very briefly propose that, whatever the incident’s impact on that race, it should once and for all put to rest the Fact-Checker stoked “dispute” about what the GOP’s plans for Medicare and Medicaid really are.
If before 2011 you understood how these programs functioned and knew the history of conservative disdain for them, nothing Paul Ryan and House Republicans did or said that year came as a huge surprise. Phasing out Medicare and replacing it with vouchers to buy private insurance has been a conservative goal since before Newt Gingrich wanted it to “wither on the vine.” Read More
Todd Akin consultant compares Akin’s resolve to suicidal cult extremist David Koresh’s.
You probably know about Intrade, the betting/prediction site that tracks political contests.
Just look at this chart after the jump … Read More
How did presidential races past look at the end of September? Check out this chart.
Hint: John McCain was doing slightly better than Romney is today.
The producer of the anti-Muslim filmed that contributed to protests and violence against U.S. interests in the Middle East is being held without bail after his arrest for allegedly violating the terms of his probation.
Early voting started yesterday in Iowa. Here’s a look at the early tea leaves.
The emerging GOP sentiment seems to be that if Mitt has to tout Romneycare as a way of fending off 47 percent attacks, then ideology be damned and just do what it takes to win this thing.