–Dan Balz and Jon Cohen crunch the numbers and suggest seniors are compromising the Democrats.
—The Pew Research Center finds that the widespread omission of cellphones from telephone polling has a more notable effect than previously reported. The issue has gained attention in recent years as more households stop using landlines …
Tonight, CNN broadcast nationally the first debate between Republican Christine O’Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons, the candidates for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware – at least most of it. The network broke away 53 minutes into the 90-minute debate to air live the rescue of the last two Chilean miners that have been …
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From the White House:
On October 13, 2010, the President signed into law:
H.R. 946, the “Plain Writing Act of 2010,” which requires Federal agencies to use plain writing in certain government documents that are issued to the public;
But the question is: what constitutes plain writing? How many pages of standards and guidelines …
Over on TIME’s healthy version of Swampland, I have a post up about the controversy over including contraception as a “preventive service” under the Affordable Care Act. Planned Parenthood says yes; the Catholic bishops say no. Kathleen Sebelius will make the final call.
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Karl Rove is a great American patriot, a genius, a statesman, even. And now he has proven his phenomenal, overflowing patriotism by setting up a secretive finance group, in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce–that’s right, our very own, United States Chamber of Commerce–to run sleazy political ads, funded by
What would an election season be without a few October surprises – or a lot? Illegal maids, audio tapes of staff slurring the opponent, old rape cases with questions about prosecution, photos of a young candidate cavorting with a dildo-nosed Rudolph – welcome to the final sprint of the 2010 midterm elections. And it’s only going to …
That’s what a pro-Obama friend told me he feared the incoming president had created with his impossible-to-live-up-to 2008 presidential campaign. Now this:
About six in 10 young adults view politics more cynically than they did two years ago. More voters under age 30 say it does not matter which party controls Congress than support
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In high school psychology, students learn about an odd tendency of the human condition, the so-called “fundamental attribution error.” We people are hard wired, it seems, to overvalue the personality-based reasons for someone’s behavior, while under-valuing the circumstantial reasons. If a waitress is rude, our instinct is to assume she …
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman shakes hands with her Democratic opponent Jerry Brown following their debate at Dominican University in San Rafael, California October 12, 2010. REUTERS/Rich Pedroncelli/Pool
–The affiliated Crossroads groups and two other Republican independent expenditure organizations …
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Kathleen Parker, sadly abused by our partners in television (CNN), has a good column today about the new documentary, Inside Job, which chronicles the 30-year sleaze tide that produced the 2008 financial crisis. I haven’t seen the film, but Parker will send me hurtling to the theater. Meanwhile, I hope you’ll go hurtling to the bookstore …
As the administration struggles to get on top of the spreading foreclosure scandal, State Attorneys General threaten to make Washington look feckless Wednesday by announcing a 40-state joint investigation into whether big banks and their associates forced people from their homes using questionable foreclosure documents.
The …
What does that even mean?
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It means Fred Davis still runs this town. CORRECTION: This ad was created by the Christine O’Donnell campaign, but not by Fred Davis.
UPDATE: The apparent inspiration for the hide lines, the autotuned Antoine Dodson, after the jump.
In a rather obvious play to the Democratic base, Team Obama has been talking a lot about Republican svengali Karl Rove in recent days. This has irked Rove, an organizer of the Republican ad group American Crossroads, who has been telling basically everyone he speaks with publicly–a.k.a. Fox News, Mike Allen–that he has been placed on …
