EXCLUSIVE: Claire McCaskill tells TPM she’s skipping the Democratic convention.
I can’t say I’d put more than a dime on it. But ever since Justice Scalia’s outburst yesterday, I’ve sort of wondered about this and a number of readers have asked too. Is that the big tell? TPM Reader RG wonders too …
Have nothing to go on with this, but Scalia’s over-the-top dissent on Arizona — and it’s pointed, personal attack against the president gave me a weird idea. Note that Roberts was in the majority on Arizona — even though Kennedy wrote the opinion. If he wanted to, he could have sided with the minority — leaving a tie and the whole thing up in the air. He didn’t — thus allowing a mixed bag that gave the administration a slender win.
Hard to believe, but it’s been nearly a year since Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was fully undone.
In September in New York, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will headline an event marking the policy’s repeal.
For a variety of reasons, I’ve felt for a while that Virginia is the pivotal state in this year’s presidential election. And the PollTracker Average just pushed the state into the Romney column with a 3.6 point margin. And that moves the TPM Electoral Scoreboard to Obama 250, Romney 237.
But here’s the catch. The poll is from We Ask America, a GOP pollster, whose numbers this year have trended heavily Republican. They were one of the few pollsters that significantly overstated the margin of Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin recall election.
Very eager to see another pollster do a sounding of Virginia.
Want to better understand the bind Mitt Romney is in with respect to taking a stand on immigration? Watch his surrogate’s twisting this morning to get an idea.
Who panders best to Latino voters — Mitt or Barack? Jon Stewart decides.