For most of this campaign cycle Rick Santorum has been one of the least disliked Republican presidential candidates. This year especially he’s only been slightly underwater in terms of favorability and he was briefly in net positive territory. But around the 20th of last month that began to change in a big way, which is right about where the ‘snob’/digs at college education story started to hit. (There were actually a few things — robocalls to Dems, whack at JFK, comments about church and state, etc.)
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Why the turn to Southern primaries comes just at the wrong time for Mitt Romney.
Remember Watson and Deep Blue, IBM’s mega-supercomputing projects knocking off chess and Jeopardy champions? IBM researchers have another version, Deep Thunder, focused on ultra-precise, ultra-localized weather forecasting. And it’s about to show up as an app on your iPad.
Remember Kindee Durkee, the California bookkeeper accused of bilking her high-powered Democratic campaign clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars?
She also did the books for a scam “Californians for Obama” political action committee, that four years on from the 2008 election has finally been rebuked by the FEC.
Fun times.
Tantalizing new evidence suggests that one of the constants of American politics — namely, that Medicare costs are on an ever-steepening upward curve that threaten the fiscal solvency of the federal government — may not be so constant after all. Sahil Kapur assesses the political implications of some new numbers.
This weekend marked one year since an earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated the coast of the northeastern Japan.
Here are remarkable images of recovery – 12 months on.
Poll: Deep South Republicans think Obama is a Muslim and aren’t crazy about interracial marriage.
DOJ objects to GOP voter ID law in Texas on grounds that it’s discriminatory against Hispanic voters.