In about an hour, at 1:30 p.m. ET, President Obama is scheduled to sit down with ABC News for a taped interview during which, “everyone” now seems to think, he will clearly and unequivocally express his support for gay marriage. Read More
Here’s our piece about why Obama thinks endorsing gay marriage is terrible politics. Unless he changes his position at 3 PM, in which case it will no longer be relevant.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the newly minted Democratic nominee to face Gov. Scott Walker in next month’s recall election, predicts a “very, very unified front” against the Governor.
GOP Senate nominee Richard Mourdock: “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”
Florida white supremacist leader, his wife, and his crew corralled as they were allegedly preparing for a “race war.” Get a load of this gang.
How cutting ‘big government’ spiked the unemployment rate way, way higher.
Dick Lugar lets out what is, for him, a primal scream against the modern day Republican Party.
Gay rights advocates tell TPM they will “look at all legal options and political options to overturn” North Carolina’s Amendment One.
TPM Reader BI checks in from on the ground in Indiana …
Maybe surprisingly, there wasn’t a lot of drama around this race on either side. Lugar’s campaign seemed to just be going through the motions. Maybe partly because they haven’t had to run a competitive race since Lugar’s first win in 1976 (their attempt to build a ground game was pitiful), but I also got the feeling that Lugar’s heart wasn’t in the kind of charge he’d have to make to the right to stave off Mourdock.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wins Wisconsin’s Democratic recall primary. He’ll face Scott Walker (again) next month, June 5th.