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05.24.12 | 8:59 am
That’s The Way To Do It

If you’re going to endorse a hardcore anti-Muslim candidate, do it on letterhead from one of George Wallace’s presidential campaigns.

05.24.12 | 8:47 am
Deafening Silence?

Are other TPM Readers in Wisconsin having the same experience as TPM Reader DS …

Maybe you’re already hearing this from other sources, but it is 2 weeks from an historic recall election and the virtual silence in the air is really palpable around here. If you’re not watching TV (where I have to assume there are ads running by the thousands) you wouldn’t even know an election was happening.

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05.24.12 | 8:21 am
Playing For Keeps

Democrats escalate battle for women voters with equal pay bill that Republicans oppose.

05.24.12 | 8:19 am
Key State Watch

New polling out on Florida, Ohio, and Virginia shows Obama ahead of Romney in all three swing states.

05.24.12 | 8:15 am
Dragon’s-Eye View

Video of SpaceX’s Dragon doing an initial flyby of the International Space Station in advance of its attempted docking.

05.24.12 | 6:18 am
Blue In The Face

I don’t know how many different stories we’ve written on this same general theme — more than 100? — but it has been the driving dynamic of U.S. politics for three years now and shows no sign of being resolved anytime soon: a smart, cogent, practical, and likely successful fix for the economy and the federal budget is right there for the taking if only Republicans would put empirical economic evidence ahead of anti-tax ideology.

05.24.12 | 5:09 am
Something Deep In The Psyche

Sara Libby takes a close look at how reapportionment in state legislatures after the 2010 census disproportionately affected female incumbents — of both parties.

05.24.12 | 4:50 am
Today’s Very Cool Thing

Why store data in a thumb drive, when you could actually store it in your thumb?

05.23.12 | 2:10 pm
Key Strategic Decision

The Romney campaign seems to have decided that it can’t repair the damage to his chances with Hispanics post-primary and he’ll focus on getting votes elsewhere.

05.23.12 | 1:34 pm
Performance Art, Right?

It won’t be easy. I know. But take a moment to plumb the depths of your memory and peer far back through the mists of time to … last Friday, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO. And then compare that to today, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO for entirely different reasons.