The key findings in a new report from Greenberg and Carville on the GOP’s conservative base: They are more intensely anti-Obama than liberal Democrats were anti-Bush, and their antipathy is not driven by racial prejudice.
Jon Stewart joins in the fun at the expense of the RNC’s new GOP.com website. Watch.
In a possible echo of the death of the census worker in Kentucky who had “Fed” scrawled across his chest with a felt tip marker, a California man was indicted today for an email threat to kill President Obama “then write ‘fed shit’ on his chest with a felt tip.”
Chris Christie, on the campaign trail: “I’m gonna let you in on a little secret … I’m overweight.”
Connecticut Democrats, anticipating a tough re-election fight for Sen. Chris Dodd, are in oppo research heaven digging through World Wrestling Entertainment clips for material to use against GOP candidate Linda McMahon, a former WWE CEO and wife of WWE principal Vince McMahon.
For the past few years, as the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation and its various spinoffs threatened to consume the entire decade, it had become pretty obvious that the feds’ main remaining target was a relatively unknown Abramoff protege by the name of Kevin Ring.
The feds had brought case after case against those who Ring had come in contact with during the GOP lobbying heyday of the early 2000s — and one by one they had pleaded guilty, avoiding trial and hoping to lighten their sentences. But long after Jack Abramoff had been carted off to jail and others had paid their debt to society and tried to resume their lives, Ring still held out, declining plea offers and eventually taking the case to trial.
But the biggest fish in the Abramoff saga to actually go to trial slipped away yesterday when the judge declared a mistrial on seven of the eight charges implicating Ring. Zack Roth takes a look at what went wrong with the Ring prosecution.
Progressive groups prep ad campaign in Nevada to pressure Harry Reid on public option.
Terry McAuliffe tells TPMDC that as much he hates to admit it, he doesn’t see a public option making it into the final version of a health care reform bill.
Justin Elliott interviews Chris Gaubatz, the insurance salesman turned fake Muslim intern:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Change your name. Grow a beard and learn the ways of Islam. Present yourself at the Council on American Islamic Relations. Acquire an internship. Wear a wire. Take whatever isn’t bolted down.
Read the rest of Justin’s report …