In the Democratic primary in North Carolina, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Iraq War vet Cal Cunningham get to do all over again — in a runoff to see who faces U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R) in November. The AP is projecting that neither candidate was able to muster 40% of the vote in tonight’s three-way election, which under state law would have avoided a runoff.
The AP has called the Ohio Democratic primary for U.S. Senate for Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, who defeats Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Fisher will face Republican Rob Portman in November for the open seat of retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R).
In many ways Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was the proto-Tea Partier. Sort of the John the Baptist to whoever the Jesus of Tea Partying is.
But now it seems, he’s gone mainstream. In the elections held today in Ohio, Samuel ran and won a seat on the Republican Party Central Committee from his precinct in Springfield Township. From the story in the Toledo Blade, it seems “Joe” has been drawn in to some sort of faction fight between the current head of the Lucas County GOP, Jon Stainbrook and a Toledo lawyer, Jeff Simpson, who wants the job.
The FBI had the suspected Times Square bomber under surveillance Monday afternoon at his home in Connecticut but somehow lost track of him as he drove to JFK and boarded a flight to Dubai.
The NYT kinda, sorta admits it goofed when it quoted the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation about the severity of the oil spill without mentioning the group’s ties to Big Oil — but oddly still doesn’t mention that one of the group’s board members is an executive with Transocean, the owner of the sunken and leaking rig, or that Transocean hosted the group’s last board meeting.
Who’s going to write the piece about the Politico using most of its ‘media coverage’ to attack its competitors? Any takers?
Jon Stewart breaks into a spontaneous rendition of “memories” when he realizes that Glenn Beck is now more sane and reasonable than John McCain.
See the video.
You would think that the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf would have brightened the chances for a climate and energy bill this year. In fact, it looks like just the opposite.
It continues to amaze me how the military (see, e.g., Jessica Lynch) and the FBI (the G-man stereotype) are so adept at turning the most discombobulated, random, messy and disjointed series of screw-ups into clean, smooth narratives — and how the media eat them up. Do they employ screenwriters to convert their epic foul-ups into plot lines we recognize from TV?
In yet another instance of this phenomenon, the story of how we came to apprehend the suspected Times Square bomber is starting to appear much less straightforward and far more bumbling than the initial reports yesterday. Read More