- On an unusually busy election day for May, Dick Lugar heads toward defeat in Indiana, Scott Walker gets his recall opponent in Wisconsin and North Carolina prepares to vote down gay marriage.
- Rick Santorum takes the political equivalent of the walk of shame, endorsing Mitt Romney at the very end of a long, late-night e-mail to supporters.
- Romney conducts secret kitchen-table focus groups.
- His campaign expands.
- Joe Biden plays first mate.
- Gay marriage is Washington’s worst parlor game.
- Soros et al. will spend $100 million on registration and turnout efforts, ceding the airwaves to conservative outside money, but not the election.
- A critique of Robert Caro’s great man mythology.
- Why it’s Lugar’s time to go.
- Israel cancels early elections as Likud assimilates Kadima into coalition government.
- The CIA thwarts another would-be underwear bomber.
- And the Minnesota House greenlights a Vikings stadium.