Jon Stewart: “Why is it that whenever something happens, that the people who should have seen it coming, didn’t see coming, it’s blamed on one of these rare, once in a century perfect storms that for some reason take place every f*****g two weeks?” Watch.
We’re not sure what this is about. But the White House has sent out word that Beau Biden, the Vice President’s son, has been hospitalized for some as-yet-unspecified reason.
I give headline of the day award to our Rachel Slajda: Is Two-Family Man Vito Fossella Considering Another Run?
Consistency, they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
Charlie Crist’s website gets a post-Indy run scrub down …
George Alan Rekers has resigned from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
It’s one of the most reliable truisms of politics: you can’t put too much stock in polls until the race in question really begins in earnest. Just ask President Giuliani. But it’s always something when you actually see it happening. A new poll just came out this morning showing Steve Poizner in a dead heat with Meg Whitman (Whitman 39%, Poizner 37%), even though Whitman has been miles out ahead of Poizner for months. She even seemed so strong that Tom Campbell basically bagged out of the governor’s race and switched to the Senate primary where he’s probably going to beat Carly Fiorina — the other GOP-anointed candidate. (There had been a couple recent polls showing Whitman’s lead shrinking fast — but the two main ones were partisan polls.) Read More
It’s never easy running in your first election after you’ve done the old party switcheroo. Let’s stipulate to that. And it’s easy to bash Arlen Specter for being a Bush guy in one election and an Obama guy in the next.
But Arlen isn’t doing himself any favors with the new TV ad that he has running in Pennsylvania about how much Obama loves him. The new ad almost exactly mirrors a TV ad that Specter ran in his 2004 campaign about how much Bush loved him.
Indoor rally? Check. Blue curtain backdrop? Check? U.S. and Pennsylvania flags in the background? Check. A President bounding on to the stage? Check.
Compare the two ads after the jump: Read More
Carly Fiorina still getting all the press in California Senate race? Check.
Never-talked-about Tom Campbell still on track to clean her clock on primary day? Check.