It’s a cliche but it’s true: It’s extremely difficult for Romney to win the presidency without winning Ohio. But it seems to be slipping out of his grasp. This morning the Washington Post released a poll showing Obama up 8 points in Ohio (52% to 44%). The current PollTracker Average gives Obama a +4.7 margin.
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Scott Brown staffers mock Elizabeth Warren with tomahawk chops and Indian war chant.
I’ve been wondering about this for a few days. Scott Brown has made the ‘controversy’ over Elizabeth Warren’s purported Native American heritage a centerpiece of the final lap of the campaign. Indeed, his staffers went so far today as to taunt Warren with “tomahawk chops” mocking her claims.
But at the debate, Brown said this … Read More
The weekend vandalizing of Rep. Michael Grimm’s Staten Island office that he called “an assault on democracy and the political process” turns out to have been the work of an eighth grader.
Kyle Leighton looks at when a bounce turns in to a lead:
Dems release the hounds as final deadline passes for Akin to get out of the race.
TPM Reader CM thinks we’re missing the significance of what happened last night on the gridiron …
I’m a huge fan of TPM (sort of religious about reading pretty much every article you publish), but this morning, I’m a little surprised you guys are not reporting on what is, in my opinion, a HUGE story: the Seattle/Green Bay Monday Night Football game. Normally, I would understand why something like this would not make the cut on a political news site, but if you caught the game and were around on facebook or twitter afterwards, you might have seen the significant public response over the officiating–and how all of that response is tied directly to the public perception of the fight over union rights and wages.
Ana Alliegro, the woman at the center of the scandal surrounding Rep. David Rivera (R-FL), disappeared just before a scheduled meeting with federal investigators. That was three weeks ago.
Does this man pass the Scott Brown “she don’t look Indian” test?
Earlier today I noted this very weird line from last week’s Massachusetts Senate race in which Sen. Scott Brown flippantly noted that you could tell that Elizabeth Warren didn’t have Cherokee heritage just by looking at her — since obviously she’s white. This not withstanding the fact that anyone familiar with the Cherokee nation or most other recognized and unrecognized American Indian groups knows that many people with undisputed Indian heritage “look white.” Read More
Already down almost 10 points in the PollTracker Average, Tommy Thompson has now shown up in a video from a Tea Party meeting in June bragging that who better than him to “do away with the Medicare and Medicaid”.
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