Joe Miller is still contesting the Alaska Senate race, but the now-muted support from national Republicans for their nominee suggests they see the handwriting on the wall and that Sen. Lisa Murkowski will prevail.

Every two years more and more people ask me whether the polls aren’t inaccurate because they don’t contact people who only use cell phones. And each year I’ve said, in theory, yes, but in practice it just hasn’t been the case. Until this year. This was the year when the cell phone issue finally came of evidence. And Pew has a new study out showing that yes, polls that only surveyed landlines were significantly and consistently more friendly to the GOP.

Remember Jack B. Johnson? He’s the Prince George’s County (MD) Executive busted by the FBI in a bribery investigation along with his wife who herself was just elected to the County Council. She was the one trying to hide the bribe money in her bra. Allegedly. Not just some money. $80,000, which I figure has to mean at least a C cup.

Well, she still wants to get sworn in to office in her new job, indictment notwithstanding.

Meet Steve Israel, the guy charged with winning back the House for the Dems in 2012.

Pope Benedict XVI’s willingness to declare condom use the lesser evil compared to spreading HIV is, I’m starting to think, a remarkable perhaps even historic change. Yesterday, I was less convinced. It seemed perhaps a misunderstanding, or a botched or ambiguous translation of the Pope’s words. But today the Pope’s spokesman has reaffirmed the Pope’s point and broadened it. Read More

Count me among those who have now ditched Netflix’s old-school DVD option for the new streaming-only subscription plan. I’m curious how many others are doing the same thing.

Price was a factor — $8 per month versus $20 per month for the 3-DVD package — but mainly it was just convenience.We hadn’t returned a DVD in months, and they were just gathering dust while we streamed movies. Read More

Barbara Bush to Larry King: I didn’t put that fetus in a jar and show it to George W. — the housekeeper did. Watch.

Exactly how the lid got blown off the feds’ big unfolding insider trading investigation is a story in its own right.

The most considered objection to Netflix streaming comes from audiophiles like TPM Reader AH: Read More

Bachmann and Fox News seize on Park51, the folks trying to build the Muslim cultural center downtown, applying for a federal grant.