- From the magazine: Scherer on Obama 2012’s fledgling ground operation and Joe on Bibi’s political provocations,
- The Times connects the dots on a few circulating Sarah Palin stories and confirms the Arizona house is hers.
- Mitt Romney may have been playing politics, but the substance of what he proposed on the auto bailouts was not far from what actually happened.
- Could he pull a Bill Clinton?
- One of Obama’s assets: He’s unusually scandal-free.
- Obama (and Bill Nelson) look to be in good shape in Florida.
- The GOP makes its debt ceiling reassurance tour on Wall Street.
- Peter Orszag on Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan (at the spiffy new Bloomberg View).
- Obama appellate court nominee Goodwin Liu withdraws after Senate filibuster.
- The State Department calls back diplomats from Yemen.
- Sharron Angle bows out of Nevada’s special election for Dean Heller’s old House seat.
- After Hochul, now one in five Democratic Reps. entered the House through special elections.
- And high school yearbook photos of the 2012 candidates.