Interesting new numbers out for Harry Reid.
The new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that Harry Reid has a four point lead over Sharron Angle — 48% to 44%.
That’s with ‘likely voters.’ Among ‘registered voters’, his margin jumps to a fairly whopping 16% margin.
Now, the 4 point margin is the one too watch. Because we’re getting close enough to the election that pollsters are able to get a decent read on who’s really likely to turn out. Also, ‘registereds’ vs. ‘likelys’ usually favors Dems. But not by that much. I’d say upwards of 10 points of that spread is where you get a real, quantifiable read on the enthusiasm gap. So you can get a sense of just how important it is for Democrats to light some sort of fire under their voters.
A reader remembers that during the 2008 campaign, Sen. McCain issued a legal memo, written by Larry Tribe and Ted Olson, which expressly argued that birthright citizenship is mandated by the 14th amendment …
Credit John McCain with a keen sense of irony. Readers may recall that McCain was himself born in the Panama Canal Zone, raising the question of whether he qualified under the Constitutional standard of ‘natural born citizen.’
His campaign turned the tandem of Larry Tribe and Ted Olson, whose memo on the matter helped settle the media debate.
I don’t really have concern one way or another about particular companies or in this case the book mega-store chain, Barnes & Noble. But the news that B&N is considering putting itself up for sale is, I suspect, a telling moment in history and fate of the physical book.
It would appear that the effort to run the Muslims of Temecula, California out of town with the yaps of unclean dogs has come to an ignominious end.
As you can see in our primary night scoreboard down to the lower right, incumbent Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI) has lost her primary for renomination to state Sen. Hansen Clarke (D). A complicated story, but certainly a huge amount of Kilpatrick’s problems stemmed from the endless and endlessly comic (thank you for the page views, Kwame) scandals of son and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and (now-ex) husband Bernard Kilpatrick. I’m not sure whether to put this into the category of signs of the broader electoral ferment in the land or that Detroit voters are just incredibly embarrassed that Kwame Kilpatrick was ever their Mayor and don’t want to be associated anymore with anyone related to him.
The winner of the primary and presumably Kilpatrick’s successor (since this is an overwhelmingly Dem district) is Hansen Clarke, the son of a Bangledeshi father and African-American mother. He’s 53.
Because of his one-time flirtation with becoming a Democrat, his once somewhat progressive views on immigration and his 2008 presidential defeat, earlier this year John McCain looked as though he could be in for the fight of his life as he tried for a fifth term in the Senate. But as Eric Kleefeld explained a couple weeks ago, McCain has ended up completely out-hustling Hayworth in Arizona’s electoral CrazyStakes to the point where he’s now an overwhelming favorite in the primary later this month. Whether it’s because he’s outspending Hayworth 10-1, or because Hayworth’s been such a buffoon or just because McCain’s out-politicked him, Hayworth looks pretty much finished.
But I wonder if the emergence of the 14th Amendment revision and birthright citizenship issues might not provide Hayworth some opening. Read More
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) came in second last night in the GOP primary for governor of Michigan.
The best (and worst) of the feisty New York City congressman on video. Watch.
Laura Ingraham was on Colbert last night pitching her book, The Obama Diaries, which includes such insightful entries as how Michelle Obama eats ribs all the time. Watch.
Tea Party Nation, one of a handful of national Tea Party groups, is asking its members to provide examples of times they’ve been abused by illegal immigrants.