Copyright expert tells TPM that the Fox News/Chris Wallace lawsuit against Democrat Robin Carnahan’s Senate campaign is a “dramatic step” with little precedent.
Yet another Christine O’Donnell-ism surfaces. This one of more recent vintage. From 2007, on The O’Reilly Factor: “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they’re already into this experiment.”
When I was high school, I remember always thinking: “Why so much pro-Muslim, pro-jihad propaganda in my textbooks?”
And now it seems the folks at the Texas Board of Education, who through some weird quirks on the national textbook market are the dominant force in determining what’s in our nation’s textbooks, has decided to “root out gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social students texts” including “sanitized definitions of ‘jihad’ that exclude religious intolerance or military aggression against non-Muslims … which undergirds worldwide Muslim terrorism.”
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Here’s the very latest average and trend on the congressional generic ballot. As you can see, the Republican advantage has been blunted a bit in the last few days. But it’s important to remember that there’s some level of bouncing back and forth we’ll see from now through election day.
Two nuggets of information that are interesting to note. A number of polls have come out in the last 36 hours, most of which look measurably better for the Dems than recent soundings have. The GWU poll shows the two sides tied. PPP shows a 1 point Dem advantage. CBS/NYT shows a 2 point GOP advantage.
Most notable though is AP/GfK. If you look at our data chart, they show an eye-popping 10 point spread for the Republicans. That’s for ‘likely voters’. But they also released their numbers for ‘registered voters’. And that number is tied at 47. It gives you a clear sense of how much of a factor uneven levels of voter enthusiasm is playing in the build up to this race.
[ed.note: Get the very latest poll data of every congressional and gubernatorial race in the country at TPMPolltracker. The latest numbers, race averages, interactive graphs and more.]
At a debate in Delaware tonight with opponent Chris Coons, Republican senate nominee Christine O’Donnell asked voters to look past her youthful discretions.
The White House confirmed earlier this morning that the President will appoint Elizabeth Warren to a newly created and still fuzzy position as consumer financial protection — dare I say it? — czar:
The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new CFPB started–right now. The President and I are committed to the same vision on CFPB, and I am confident that I will have the tools I need to get the job done.
The President will announce the appointment in the Rose Garden this afternoon.
Police in London arrested five men early Friday but have not charged them as they investigate an alleged threat against the Pope during his ongoing visit to Britain.
I’m usually not one for celebrity endorsement/stunt type stuff. But this one worked. It’s Lady Gaga for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network for the repeal of DADT. And Sens. Gilibrand and Schumer, what’s the deal with not answering your phones for constituent calls? Weird. Read More
The annual Values Voters Summit kicks off today in DC with appearances by most of the top moralsists in the GOP — including Bill Bennett, Gary Bauer, Hannity, Romney Schlafly and Brian Fischer, the Director of Issues Analysis at the American Family Association who’s so moral he wants to shut down every mosque in America and thinks we should “handle Muslims just like we handle the Neo-Nazis.” And beside them, a lot of others too. Here’s our preview of the days festivities, which run through tomorrow. And our Evan McMorris-Santoro will be at the event today and tomorrow filing live running updates, which you can see here.