Here’s another installment in this weekend’s on-going conversation with TPM Readers about how you use mobile devices (iPhones, Blackberrys, Palm Pres, etc.) and how you’d most like to read TPM on those gizmos. We’ve now gotten around 600 responses and counting. So please keep them coming. So far I’ve read every one. (To find out what we’re discussing and why we want your feedback, please see this post from Friday evening and this summary of initial responses from Saturday.) Read More

Joe Lieberman, on his concerns about health care reform: I’m worried about the deficit — not Connecticut’s insurance companies. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Former Fox News commentator Jane Hall tells CNN that one reason she decided to leave the network was because Glenn Beck is “way over the top” and “scary.” Watch.

It’s news to no one that physical, print newspapers are in the throes of a historic decline. But the numbers themselves really take your breath away when you see them. According to the Audit Bureau, daily circulation fell 10.6% year over year in the period between April to September.

Ad revenues are one thing; and they’re likely enough to be fatal to newspapers as the dominant mode of news distribution in the country. But that figures in economic trends of various sorts. But readership, while obviously intimately related, is a different sort of metric. I have many thoughts on this. But at the moment I’m not sure what to say other than those numbers take my breath away. A ten percent decline year over year is the rate of a mode of distribution going out of existence.

Late Update: Look at this graphical representation of the circulation declines of several major metro dailies. Scroll down — at first you’ll only see the line for the WSJ. But look particularly at the decline of the LAT. It takes your breath away.

Suffolk University has a new poll out today with Corzine at 42% and Christie at 33%. This is Suffolk’s first entry into this race. And that’s a dramatic departure from other recent polls. So it’s important to take this one with a grain of salt or probably several. But it does mesh with what recent polls have been telling us — that Corzine remains deeply unpopular, but that Christie appears to have succeeded in lapping him in the unpopularity derby.

I’ll be very curious to see if other polls this week at all reflect this trend.

Dem challenger, Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA) says “we can only guess” David Vitter’s reasons for opposing the anti-rape amendment.

In fairness, Vitter’s thing seems to be paying for sex rather than forcing sex. But, well …

And remember, Obama’s DOD opposed it too.

Unlike the posts over the weekend, this is one is just for tech geeks. It’s about usage statistics at TPM for different kinds of mobile devices. If you’re really a stats and tech geek, join me after the jump. Read More

Sen. Reid (D-NV) is sending his bill to CBO today for scoring and will apparently unveil it publicly a short time later. It will apparently include the ‘opt-out’ public option, notwithstanding the White House’s skepticism, though that may be one of a menu of options. Details are still developing. And we’ll bring you more soon.

In a new direct mail campaign, Blue Cross/Blue Shield is pressuring Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) to oppose a public option because “it’s a slippery slope to a single payer system.” You can read the mailer here.

Republicans can’t seem to decide whether to attack the Census and encourage citizens to boycott it or create RNC mailers that pretend to be Census mailers so people will open them and feel obligated to fill them out.