Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) just announced that he’s extending the hours for early voting in his state. That seems notably, even surprisingly, non-partisan and inclusive. Is there a catch?
Most of the attention is on the presidential race. But there’s also that question of whether the Democrats are going to put together that 60 vote majority in the senate. In today’s episode we look at the 12 top senate races that will determine whether the Democrats will go into 2009 with that filibuster-proof majority …
Full-size video at TPMtv.com.
Old-time Clinton hate group Citizens United is parachuting a Ayers/Wright freak-out DVD into Ohio papers starting today.
Late Monday afternoon I was standing in front of 200 or so congressional staff members when someone in the front row handed me a Blackberry with the news bulletin announcing Sen. Ted Stevens’ seven-count felony conviction. As I read the news flash to the gasping Hill aides one thing jumped into mind: “Foley Friday,” Sept. 29, 2006, when news broke of then-GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate behavior toward a House page. At that point in 2006, Republicans had already been buffeted for a year or more by a then-worsening situation in Iraq and a wide array of scandals. Just as it seemed things could not possibly get worse, they did. Only the most partisan of Democrats or cold-hearted of people would fail to have some compassion or sympathy towards a party for which virtually everything has gone wrong. Someone recently likened it to watching a wounded dog kicked.
The few, the proud … the TPM interns.
TPM brings on a new class of interns each season. And we’re now taking applications for our Winter 2008/2009 cycle. TPM interns are probably as intimately and rapidly involved in the preparation and production of news coverage as interns at any other news organization. And that ranges from work on the news section of the front page to research for our news blogs to video editing to bylined articles. Winter cycle interns will work closely on stories relating to the presidential transition and the start of the new Congress. The application deadline is November 7th. To find out details for how to apply, click here.
From instant crush to how could I have ever liked her in six short weeks. We chronicle conservatives’ short and sour fling with Sarah Palin.
McCain attacking Obama for a tie to a Palestinian-American Professor who McCain himself gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of grants to.
Late Update: TPM Reader BS writes in …
I think it is more than worth reframing your lede on Obama’s and McCain’s ties to a “Palestinian Professor.” Look there is absolutely nothing for either of them to be ashamed about. Rashid Khalidi is no terrorist, nor is he even remotely objectionable to anyone but the Daniel Pipes crowd. He is one the country’s most respected political historians of the Middle East, who happens to be Palestinian, happens to write on Palestinian history, has published perhaps the most influential book on the birth of Palestinian nationalism, and who wound up at Columbia after a bidding war with U. Chicago.
Let the McCain try to argue that it’s objectionable for Obama or anyone else to be tied to this guy; please keep TPM on a higher ground and let’s simply point out that both candidates should be proud to have ties to him at all. I’d wager money the research that IRI funded was well worth pouring money into.
In my haste, “Palestinian Professor” seemed like a simple short-hand, though Palestinian-American probably would have been better. But if it was too simple, for the record, I subscribe to BS’s point. And nothing in the original post was meant to suggest otherwise.
Highly respected economist, endlessly mocked campaign surrogate.