Turns out Scott Brown’s staffers “tomahawk chop” didn’t go over to well with the Bill John Baker, chief of the Cherokee Nation. He’s now demanding an apology from the Indian-concern-trolling Senator from Massachusetts.
Early voting begins in Iowa just as Obama kicks back into the lead.
With Republicans nationwide jumping back on the Todd Akin bandwagon, we prepared this awesome video remembrance of back a month ago when every Republican in the country was hatin’ them some Todd Akin like there was no tomorrow. Watch.
I’ve got a post I’ve been working on for a couple days about the as-yet-unexplained boost in economic optimism over the last month which seems to be swelling President Obama’s numbers. Big question in my mind: is there something happening in the real economy that we’re not seeing yet in the hard numbers (this has happened before) or is growing enthusiasm for Obama actually driving (or perhaps better to say, partisanizing) data about the economy?
I’ll try to have the post up some time tonight — of course, with special cool charts.
It looks like the Todd Akin Freeze Out (TAFO) is just about officially over.
The Republican Senate campaign committee has decided to reconsider supporting Todd Akin.
As we’ve discussed on various occasions, the Gallup Poll has consistently been slightly more favorable to Mitt Romney than most other premium polls. Particularly, it’s the Gallup Tracking Poll. But the difference seems to apply to their full polls as well. Gallup picked up the Obama convention bounce. But then it subsided back to the roughly tied race they’ve been showing for months.
But now we’re getting our first real look at Gallup after the 47% brouhaha. Read More
Dan Lungren becomes most recent Republican to dump on Mitt Romney and his 47% remarks, which Lungren called a “major mistake.”
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How did no one tell me about this until now. TPM Reader BL sends along this epic Romney dignity loss moment.
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A new site called Newsbound has a nice graphical take on just what the battle over Voter ID is all about.
TPM Reader DS wonders whether we’re still underestimating the impact of “the 47%” …
Looking at TPM’s really nice “state of the race” chart, it seems to me that it is Romney’s numbers that are falling fast rather than additional gains by Obama (although there may be some of that too). Running the cursor on the chart seems to suggest so, as it appears that Obama’s numbers had come down slightly after peaking on Sept 13 and Romney’s had flattened out around the same time, until David Corn’s Mother Jones piece came out on Sept 17, and then Romney’s numbers started to go down fast.