More bad news for the Count?
WSBT and the South Bend Tribune have commissioned another poll of the race in Indiana’s 2nd district. That’s the Chocola (R) – Donnelly (D) rematch. And it looks like Chocola is in deep trouble.
Research 2000 finds incumbent Chocola down by 8 percentage points. In July, by comparison he was down by 5 percentage points.
For some reason the story at WSBT, which I linked, doesn’t have the actual numbers, only the spread. I assume the Trib will run those numbers when their story comes out tonight. We’ll have it at the TPM Poll Tracker.
CNN’s language of choice. From off the front page (emphasis added) …
A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol Hill with “new language,” for a proposal that would allow the CIA to continue alternative interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Republican senators have voted against legislation aimed at detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Now even House Republicans are having second thoughts about President Bush’s torture bill. If even the most ingrained lickspittles won’t sign on, is the bottom really falling out?
Ahhh TPM Reader TK …
Is it just me, or is President Bush attempting to do what he always accuses liberal judges of doing, but on an international level? He’s taking an international law designed to prevent torture and parsing it to suit his own agenda, namely, torture. Granted, international law is not nearly as codified as our common law, but his ideological disingenuousness comes into full relief when his pro-torture arguments are juxtaposed with how he criticizes judges with whom he disagrees.
Not an originalist.
The FBI’s uncovering so much corruption in Washington, it’s had to triple the number of agents who bust lawmakers and lobbyists. That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
New Rasmussen poll: Lieberman barely up on Lamont, 45-43.