Editors’ Blog - 2010
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10.21.10 | 11:22 am
SLIDESHOW: Up In Smoke

Mexico disposes of what it says is the largest pot bust in its history:

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10.21.10 | 11:33 am
TPM Midterms Wire

The news is coming fast and furious now with a lot of fast-breaking nuggets of news. So don’t miss our auto-updating TPM Midterms Wire. You can visit the main page here or see the latest updates down beneath our feature story on the right.

10.21.10 | 12:07 pm
Wingnut Convergence

Christine O’Donnell scrubs the endorsement of Pam Geller, premier Islamophobe, from her website.

10.21.10 | 12:24 pm
Hold Your Horses

Christina O’Donnell keeps talking about serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if she is elected — as if a slot on the primo committee was hers for the asking. As Brian Beutler explains, it’s not nearly that simple.

10.21.10 | 12:32 pm
That Does Seem Odd

I’m usually a skeptic of poll skeptics. But I think Alan Abramowitz has a pretty good question in his analysis of the Gallup poll’s new congressional generic vote screen …

But that’s not the most implausible result in the latest Gallup likely voter survey. Among nonwhites other than blacks, a group that comprises about 13% of likely voters, a generic Republican is leading a generic Democrat by 10 points, 52% to 42%. That’s a group that voted Democratic by a 2-1 margin in the 2006 midterm election. Moreover, it’s a group that has never given a majority of its vote to Republican candidates for Congress in any election since the advent of exit polling. According to the 2006 exit poll results, about two-thirds of these “other nonwhite” voters are Latinos. How plausible is it that at a time when the Republican Party is closely associated with stridently anti-immigrant policies that Latino voters are moving in droves toward Republican candidates? Not plausible at all, especially when Gallup’s results are directly contradicted by other recent polls of Latino voters.

10.21.10 | 12:39 pm
Crying All the Way to the Bank

Juan Williams bags new $2 million contract with Fox News.

10.21.10 | 1:55 pm
It’s Coming

Just to remind you. The 10th anniversary of TPM is coming up on November 13th. Ten years.

10.21.10 | 2:06 pm
Who? And How Much?

The New York Times starts to peel back the curtain on which major companies are the big donors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its $75 million election year campaign effort.

10.21.10 | 2:13 pm
Just Sleazy Sleazy Sleazy

GOPer Spike Maynard runs Arab-bashing ad against Rep. Nick Rahall (D).

Admittedly, it’s not as bad as Aqua Buddha. But, hey …

10.21.10 | 2:24 pm
They Just Won’t Stop

In response to the somewhat counterintuitive (or at least counter-narrative) news that Dems are doing reasonably well in early voting, Tea Party chieftain Dick Armey says Dems are voting early to commit voter fraud. Particularly in the “inner city.”

See the video.