Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introducing bill to set federal standards to reduce lines at polling places and make them more accessible.
Evan McMorris-Santoro is taking your questions in TPMPrime at 4 p.m. ET.
Photos from the life of the renowned jazz pianist. (Plus other notable deaths of 2012.)
PollTracker editor Kyle Leighton looks at the latest polling on the “fiscal cliff” to see what solutions people favor:
The 30 totally inconsistent, often contradictory, and occasionally incoherent things that Republicans say they must/must not do to rebuild. And it’s only been one month since Election Day.
President Obama made public comments to this effect in front of the Business Roundtable. And various other commentators have reported it. But it’s turning out to be far more important than the jousting over tax rates that President Obama is saying flatly that he will not negotiate under any circumstances over raising the national debt limit. Read More
Big announcement from South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint that he will step down from the Senate to run the Heritage Foundation.
Jim DeMint’s own choice to succeed him in the Senate is Rep. Tim Scott, a conservative African American freshman congressman representing South Carolina’s 1st District, a GOP official in the state tells TPM.
Notwithstanding the fact the GOP is now a whiter party than at any time in its history, no two ways about it: An African-American Senator from the post-Reconstruction South, from South Carolina of all places, would be a new day under the Sun.
Many opponents of GOP debt-ceiling hostage taking have been pointing for more than a year to the idea that the 14th Amendment might give the President authority to continue borrowing money even without a debt-ceiling vote. In other words, the entire concept of debt-ceiling votes are themselves unconstitutional because the President has the borrowing authority himself. I actually think there’s something to the argument. But the White House clearly does not. And that’s probably not even the biggest problem. Read More