Dana Perino explains how the nation is in jeopardy because the Dems didn’t pass an extension of the Protect America Act that President Bush himself opposed.
The affair story was thin, thin, thin. But the lobbying shenanigans are the real deal. We look at the latest on Mr. Clean Government, John McCain, in today’s episode of TPMtv …
Jan 13: Clinton 42%, Obama 27%
Feb 3: Clinton 41%, Obama 41%
Feb 25: Obama 54%, Clinton 38%
The clock is still ticking.
Any day now, McCain will pass the spending limit for the primaries under the public financing system. He wants out of the system and claims he has a “constitutional right” to withdraw. The FEC says it must agree to his withdrawal, but it’s unable to act because of a lack of commissioners.
Elizabeth Warren, on why Larry Summers and the mortgage industry are wrong.
There’s a bunch of new polls out in the last few days on the Democratic races in Ohio and Texas.
So where do things stand, just a week before those crucial primaries?
Here’s the poll of polls on Texas, from Pollster.com, updated through yesterday:
Speaks for itself. It’s a pretty stark trend line, with Obama finally moving ahead after trailing Hillary there for the entire campaign. But it’s also still close.
Pollster.com’s poll of polls in Ohio is a couple of days behind. This is through Sunday:
Several Ohio polls have been released since yesterday, all showing Hillary with the lead, but it’s a narrowing lead in each instance. So you would expect to see Obama’s upward trend line continuing once Pollster.com updates the chart, but he hasn’t caught her in Ohio yet.
John Solomon’s Washington Times rolls out the next Obama smear: Military “fears” him.
Reed Hundt: John McCain should take the lead right now in shutting down the GOP’s racist and sexist attacks and incipient funding efforts directed at Obama or Hillary.
John McCain: straight shootin’ maverick and courageous champion of campaign finance reform. So then why is he currently doing his best to defy the FEC and make his own set of campaign finance rules? We puzzle it all out in today’s episode of TPMtv …