Michelle Malkin: “We are all voter fraud police now.” Watch.
Most of you probably remember eight years ago, the shocking news of the death of then-Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN). Now his FBI file has been released, starting from a fingerprint from an arrest at an anti-war rally in 1970 to the search for his remains 32 years latter.
If you hear any roughhousing tonight it’ll probably be from the second and final Kentucky senate debate tonight at 8 PM.
This is the debate Rand Paul initially threatened to pull out of over Aqua Buddha but later agreed to participate in.
TPM Reader DM looks beneath the numbers on the top races out in California …
If you look at the PPIC polls as well as the LA Times polls, the simple answer is that CA is continuing it Democratic voting pattern started after 1994 when Pete Wilson made the Republican Party an anathema in order to defeat Kathleen Brown (sister of Jerry). Pete Wilson made CA reliably Democratic, and the Republican Neanderthals continued their efforts to purge that Party of moderate voters. No moderate can get a Republican nomination these days except in a few local races. Remember, Arnold did not get a Republican nomination until he was running for re-election. The latest PPIC poll showed a clear trend towards a traditional Democratic CA result. The subsequent LA Times poll (and, yes, there are problems of comparing polls by different pollsters) showed the continuation of the trend in the PPIC poll.
TPM Reader SB has a question …
This has been bugging me for a while now:
The conventional wisdom is that the Dems are toast in the House, but that they are very unlikely to lose the Senate, since it would take a running-of-the-table of certain races to get them down to 49 seats. Nate Silver says there’s only a 19% chance that will happen.
But going down to 50 is much more plausible: Silver thinks those odds are better than 1 in 3.
The question is, do you really trust Joe Lieberman to stick with the Dems when he could become a GOP hero (and probably get whatever committee assignment he wanted) by voting for Mitch McConnell for Majority Leader?
We’re now one week out before the election. Get the very latest details in our live-updating TPM Midterm wire.
Republicans start revving up their base with phony vote fraud claims in time for the election. Chairman of Republicans National Lawyers Association warns of “epidemic of voter fraud.”
We’ve updated our numbers as of 1 PM today. So take a look at our snapshot of where the key races stand as of just 8 days before the election. We’ve put together a slide show of the trend graphs, as of today, of all the key races. Take a look.
Tea Party Nation: Help retire Rep. Keith Ellison because he’s the only Muslim in Congress.
Okay, I hope our great coverage of races across the country, our daily updated polling graphs and our detailed reporting on the on-going GOP agitation about allegations of vote fraud and so much more is enough to make up for the annoyance of my trying to get us over 30,000 fans for TPM on Facebook. But, please, indulge me. We only need 1474 more people to ‘like’ TPM on Facebook. So few! So close!
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