Dems figure they might as well make hay over the audience outbursts at the last three GOP debates.
Florida moves to schedule its presidential primary ahead of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, threatening to scramble the primary season calendar.
Mitt Romney takes the plausible argument that he’s not the career politician Rick Perry is one step too far and declares: “I don’t have a political career.”
FBI busts Northeastern University graduate student in sting in which he allegedly plotted to bomb the Pentagon and Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft. The defendant is a U.S. citizen.
Rick Perry: It was “inappropriate” of me to say immigration foes don’t “have a heart.”
As Benjy Sarlin reports, that heartless line in the last debate is causing Perry all kinds of trouble among conservatives who are otherwise favorably disposed toward him.
The election clerk in Waukesha County, Wisc. — who has been the target of liberal conspiracy theories since she found more than 7,000 uncounted votes for Justice David Prosser in last April’s Supreme Court race — did in fact violate state laws and regulations during that election but could not possibly have manipulated the controversial tally, a state review board has found.
A lawyer representing one of the alleged “Anonymous” defendants tell TPM there’s nothing criminal about DDOS attacks: “This was merely a digital sit in. It is no different from occupying the Woolworth’s lunch counter in the civil rights era.”
Florida’s move to reschedule its presidential primary in January is likely to push the entire primary calendar up by at least a month. It’s a replay of the 2008 election mess and should shine a bright light on what a completely broken system both parties have for selecting a nominee. But alas it’s been this broken for more than three decades and no fix is anywhere in sight. Eric Kleefeld explains the latest manifestation of the dysfunction.