After first threatening not to show up for the second debate with Jack Conway, Rand Paul has just announced that he will in fact show up for the second and final scheduled debate.
Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe describes surviving the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) — and then waiting for hours to be discovered and rescued: Read More
Interesting comparison by Greg Sargent of the amount of undisclosed-donor cash being spent by right-wing groups ($75 million) versus left-wing groups (less than $10 million).
A curious story out of one of the corners of the federal regulatory infrastructure. A retiring administrative judge at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission dropped a bombshell on his way out the door recently: He alleged that his fellow judge struck a deal two decades ago never to rule in favor of investors and for 20 years has kept his promise. And at least through December 2000, investors in front of him had in fact always lost. But the retiring judge making the claim has some credibility problems of his own, so it’s hard to make sense of exactly what has been going on. But a fascinating story worth following.
Here’s a little end of the week comic relief for you. On MSNBC today former Speaker Denny Hastert got asked why we’re not seeing John Boehner doing much campaigning around the country. Is he too unpopular? Hastert did his best to explain — something to do with party demographics make it really hard to find flights to Republicans districts. Video after the jump … Read More
Want to get a snapshot of where all the key races are as of today? We’ve put together a slide show of the trend graphs, as of today, of all the key races. Take a look.
Police say that Joe Miller’s security team couldn’t come up with the name of anyone that arrested journalist had ‘assaulted’.
I didn’t get the sense that Chris Coons was going to need to run any attack ads against Christine O’Donnell. And the polls suggest he’s going to absolute crush her on November 2nd. But he’s not leaving anything to doubt apparently. Here’s Coons first ad attacking O’Donnell. And special hint — it involves those genetically engineered mice with functioning human brains. Watch.
Joe Miller has retained as a campaign consultant a guy who specializes in giving gays ‘treatment’ so they become straight.