For about a month now, guardians of conventional wisdom have read just about every piece of political news, significant and trivial, as a disaster for the Obama campaign. Now along comes new polling data that suggest President Obama has actually widened his margins over Mitt Romney in key swing states.
What’s the obvious conclusion to draw from this? According to Mark Halperin it’s that “New polling suggests @BarackObama more than survived his bad stretch.” Read More
If you remember the ‘Troubles’, this picture will blown your mind (in a good way.)
“There are two parties here. Exactly what’s going to happen still remains unclear. I know that I pride my reputation as much as Politico prides theirs. And a way forward has to involve both sides” — suspended reporter Joe Williams. Watch.
Suspended Politico reporter blames right-wing media for stirring up trouble.
The political news universe is generally on hold until mid-morning Thursday when the Supreme Court will deliver its historic decision on the Affordable Care Act. After stuff I heard this morning I think there’s a tiny bit more chance Dems have a good outcome. (Sahil Kapur looks at just how much of ‘Obamacare’ Republicans would actually be able to repeal, regardless of the Court’s decision.) But there’s a raft of new polling news out with pretty good news for President Obama and a major corrective to recent spin about the state of the race. Read More
Rand Paul injecting abortion politics into run-of-the-mill flood insurance bill. TPM talked to him late yesterday.
Yesterday, Sen. Sherrod Brown appeared for the TPM Newsmaker Interview series. Today, a new poll has him up 16 points over his senate challenger. Coincidence? I think not.
We’ve now got 22% of precincts reporting in the NY-8 Dem primary. And Hakeem Jeffries has a massive lead, 72.9% vs 27.1%. Again, matters a lot where in the district those votes are from. But that’s a big, big lead. A lot of establishment Dems will be really happy to see Jeffries take this.
10:34 PM: Okay, 42% reporting, Jeffries 73.5% to Barron 26.5%. Think this one’s pretty close to done.
10:40 PM: And AP calls it. Jeffries in a walk.
A big chunk of votes just came in and put Charlie Rangel into a big lead in the NY-13 Democratic primary. Still only 15% reporting. Interestingly, Rangel is cleaning up in the Bronx while Espaillat is getting his votes in Manhattan.