- Public Policy Polling’s latest shows a tightening race in Michigan, Romney within four.
- “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” says an anonymous Republican Senator.
- GOP pessimism takes over.
- Santorum risks being defined by sticky social issues.
- To wit: questioning Obama’s “theology,” opposition to pre-natal testing, prosecuting abortion doctors, and nostalgia for single-room schools.
- Santorum’s dog anecdote is funnier than Romney’s.
- Young Mitt at BYU.
- Arizona congressional candidate and Romney state co-chair Sheriff Paul Babeu comes out, denies he threatened to deport his Mexican boyfriend.
- Maryland’s on the brink of gay marriage as New Jersey’s governor vetoes it, which is sure to come up in the O’Malley-Christie presidential debates of 2016.
- And The Onion reports on conservation efforts in the nation’s capital.