Daniel Strauss talks with a couple of the top staffers who were part of that mass exodus today yesterday from the Senate campaign of Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA).
This map and reporting from Daniel Strauss shows why Democrats should be worried about fixing Healthcare.gov in time for 2014 Senate races. Of the top ten most competitive races, only Kentucky built its own health insurance marketplace, and it enrolled more people than the nine other states with competitive races combined. Those states are forced to use Healthcare.gov, so Democrats in those states better hope it starts working — soon.
Larry Sabato, author of The Kennedy Half Century: “In the days and years after Nov. 22, 1963, anti-Dallas sentiment was rampant across the country.”
The details of new domestic violence allegations against George Zimmerman are horrifying: He allegedly pointed a gun at the woman known only as his girlfriend. He allegedly broke a glass coffee table and barricaded the door after shoving her out of the house, according to the arrest report. Today, at a court hearing, prosecutors claim there was a previous unreported incident during which he allegedly choked his girlfriend.
And though the incident itself is terrifying for the presumed victim, it’s not all that surprising. Zimmerman had previously been suspected of domestic violence, though charges never came through because he smashed the iPad allegedly containing the video of key evidence against him.
All too often, incidents of domestic violence aren’t the first time a partner has threatened the woman he is in an intimate relationship with. In an age in which we are constantly trying to calculate the next attack, incidents of domestic violence are by comparison almost easy to predict.
Freshman Republican congressman from Florida has been charged in DC with possession of cocaine, Politico is reporting.
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You might have missed this yesterday while news was breaking about a certain coked-up congressman, but Senate Democrats are edging closer to changing the filibuster rules for judicial nominees.
Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the launch failure of HealthCare.gov.
If Rob Ford was a African-American/Canadian crackhead, boozing, episodically violent, John Mayor, how would this story be playing. From TPM Reader ND …
I’m enjoying your coverage of the Rob Ford debacle (if debacle is even the right word) up in Toronto. But as a native of Washington, D.C. whose formative years were shaped by the arrest, and subsequent reelection, of Marion Barry, I can’t help but look at the marked contrast between the two mayors through the lens of race (though, in full disclosure, I’m a white suburbanite, so make of this what you will).
In light of the Kennedy assassination anniversary, Kennedy Half Century author Larry Sabato reflects on political dynasties. But America’s real political dynasty today isn’t Kennedy. “There is no real comparison: The more successful family dynasty by far, at least to this point, has the surname of Bush.”