The Indiana Senate race was already extremely close, notwithstanding Indiana’s remaining a pretty red state in most regards. Now with Richard Mourdock’s comments about God and rape Democrats are piling on and a number of Republicans are running for cover, either disagreeing with Mourdock’s comments or denouncing them more fulsomely. (Interestingly, Sen. John Cornyn, head of the Republicans senate campaign committee, is defending Mourdock.) Read More

Sarah Palin decries Obama’s “shuck and jive” on Libya.

Barney Frank joins us for a Live Chat at TPMPrime at 1pm EST. Get your questions in now.

Our 2012 campaign reporter, Benjy Sarlin, is answering your questions now in a Live Chat at TPMPrime.

For understanding the electoral college, it’s important to remember that in recent cycles Democrats always seem to outperform the polls in Nevada.

Benjy Sarlin talks to an international law expert about Mitt Romney’s proposal to arrest Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and try him for inciting genocide. About as plausible a scenario as you’d imagine.

A new Time poll, just out, gives Obama a 5-point lead — and a striking 60-30 percent lead among early voters.

Earlier today, a Democratic poll showed Obama up 2 points.

All the latest polling charts in the most important races right here.

Here’s what the PollTracker average of Ohio looks like with the addition of today’s new polls: Read More

Check out the new 9-billion pixel image of the central Milky Way captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.