TPM Reader JA chimes in with his take. Not sure I completely agree. But it is true that if Wolf Blitzer ain’t buying then you’re going to have a hard time selling anyone:
I think your two most recent posts on the editor’s blog are related to each other in an important way.
MH asks “who are the voters this will affect?” I agree that this issue alone will probably not swing many votes. But it might swing the media and their coverage of Mitt Romney.
Insurgent Ted Cruz prevented Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst from winning the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate outright in Texas last night. They now go to a runoff.
Eligible voters are being purged from the rolls in Florida, and Congressional Democrats are demanding that Republican Gov. Rick Scott put a stop to it.
In the Presidential Medal of Freedom awards yesterday President Obama misspoke and referred to “Polish death camps” when referring to Nazi German death camps in Poland. He’s now apologized. But Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, who has very conservative politics and a habit of playing in US politics, has taken the opportunity to attack the President for his “ignorance and incompetence,” in other words, playing from the GOP playbook. (Sikorski is a one time columnist for the National Review, fellow at AEI and advisor to Rupert Murdoch.)
Obama camp shifts from Bain to Romney record as failed governor of Massachusetts. 3rd to worst jobs record in the country.
Sarlin and McMorris-Santoro explain why Mitt Romney refuses to pull the plug on his high profile alliance with Donald Trump.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), running for Senate in Michigan, is proposing the creation of a federal department of birtherism to analyze and approve presidential birth certificates.