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First poll out since Meg Whitman’s maid fiasco shows her down by 5 against Jerry Brown. And it’s a poll from Rasmussen.
Cleta Mitchell has been one the GOP establishment’s higher-profile election lawyers for a long time. Now she’s signed on to represent both Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.
Christine O’Donnell in her 2006 campaign for U.S. Senate: I know “classified information” about China’s “carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America.”
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): Sexually active single women and gays should be barred from teaching in schools.
Responding for the first time to CNN’s report of his botched punking of one its reporters, James O’Keefe claims in a statement posted on his website that he “was repulsed by the over-the-top language and symbolism that was suggested in the memo that was sent to me, and never considered that for a moment.” Yet, at the same time, O’Keefe says, “I’ll admit that I liked the basic absurdity of meeting Abbie Boudreau on a boat and the idea of counter-seduction satire executed in a tame, humorous, non-threatening manner.”
We’ve got another new congressional generic just out today. This one from Rasmussen and it shows a 3 point spread for the GOP — GOP 45%, Dems 42%. But the context is important. Last week Rasmussen had a 6 point margin. And for most of the summer their number has hovered around 10 points or higher in the GOP’s favor. In other words, going by their past averages, Friday’s Newsweek poll and today’s from Rasmussen are pretty consistent.
The TPM Poll Average for the congressional generic now stands at +1.9 GOP.
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