- Republicans win special House elections in New York and Nevada.
- With all the usual caveats, the political environment appears similar to last year’s.
- Elizabeth Warren turns the populism up to 11 in Senate announcement:
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- Her battle with Brown could be epic.
- A Republican pollster sees a tipping point for Obama’s approval.
- His economic approach might be facing an “ObamaCare” effect: popular proposals that are unpopular in aggregate.
- The public is skeptical.
- U.S. poverty in charts.
- The FDIC approves resolution “funeral plans” rule for megabanks.
- And from the Dept. of You Can’t Make This Up: Jon Huntsman’s “positive intensity score” is negative 1.