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.
National Republicans pile back onto the Todd Akin bandwagon.
Rather than subsiding, Obama’s post-convention “bounce” seems to be solidifying and growing. See the state of the race chart after the jump … Read More
Early voting starts now, when Romney is unquestionably behind in the presidential contest. With more than a third of votes cast before November 6th, the window may be closing on Romney faster than we think.
From our interview with Nate Silver:
One thing people maybe don’t grasp as a very basic thing is the more time runs off the clock, the more holding a narrow advantage is likely to hold up. If you were making an assessment of what Obama’s chances were in the spring, then you have to worry about a blowup in Europe, you have to worry about something happening in the Middle East — maybe it still will in the Middle East. Maybe instead of having merely mediocre jobs numbers, actually going back into a recession. There are all these shoes that can drop on you and they haven’t.
Already down almost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has now shown up in a video from a Tea Party meeting in June bragging that who better than him to “do away with the Medicare and Medicaid”.
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Does this man pass the Scott Brown “she don’t look Indian” test?
Earlier today I noted this very weird line from last week’s Massachusetts Senate race in which Sen. Scott Brown flippantly noted that you could tell that Elizabeth Warren didn’t have Cherokee heritage just by looking at her — since obviously she’s white. This not withstanding the fact that anyone familiar with the Cherokee nation or most other recognized and unrecognized American Indian groups knows that many people with undisputed Indian heritage “look white.” Read More