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”.
Video after the jump … Read More
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
Ana Alliegro, the woman at the center of the scandal surrounding Rep. David Rivera (R-FL), disappeared just before a scheduled meeting with federal investigators. That was three weeks ago.
TPM Reader CM thinks we’re missing the significance of what happened last night on the gridiron …
I’m a huge fan of TPM (sort of religious about reading pretty much every article you publish), but this morning, I’m a little surprised you guys are not reporting on what is, in my opinion, a HUGE story: the Seattle/Green Bay Monday Night Football game. Normally, I would understand why something like this would not make the cut on a political news site, but if you caught the game and were around on facebook or twitter afterwards, you might have seen the significant public response over the officiating–and how all of that response is tied directly to the public perception of the fight over union rights and wages.
Dems release the hounds as final deadline passes for Akin to get out of the race.