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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 42 Comments

I joked the other day about Elizabeth Warren's Mike Dukakis Tank moment. Maybe tanking was the right word, because a PPP poll just released shows Warren 5 points behind and Warren's negatives rising dramatically (emphasis mine): PPP's newest poll on the Massachusetts Senate race finds Scott Brown...

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Posted by Anne Segal on August 21, 2012 117 Comments

Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Todd Akin repeated on the Mike Huckabee radio show that he will stay in the race, saying "We are going to continue with this race for U.S. Senate,” which he then confirmed on Dana Loesch's The Dana Show shortly after: I don't think this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 74 Comments

for you know what. Lots of speculation and "inside info" on the internets. Update: Perhaps this will provide some clarity (radio link here) Todd Akin on today’s show 12:35 central. #dlrs— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 21, 2012 ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 13 Comments

For three bucks, you too can have dinner with Barack Obama.  You may be the winner already! But wait, there's more. You get to pay several hundred dollars in taxes! But call within the next ten minutes and you will get whine with dinner, because Romney is flush with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 7 Comments

On me. Another from Tracy, whose bumper sticker photo yesterday was noticed: We saw this car recently in Hatteras, North Carolina. ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 35 Comments

PPP finds Todd Akin still leads Claire McCaskill, and that the numbers have not changed much since the controversy broke: Missouri voters strongly disagree with the comments Todd Akin made about abortion over the weekend, but it hasn't moved the numbers a whole lot in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 68 Comments

Hannity laid it on the line for Todd Akin, is he willing to drag down the presidential ticket and the goal of taking back the Senate. Listening to the audio, you can see how Akin would be a good candidate against McCaskill if he had not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 100 Comments

Yesterday I cautioned against piling on a candidate within minutes before giving the candidate a chance to react himself. With the benefit of 24 hours, it's clear that Akin has become a national liability, in part because his apology was round-about, in part because Republicans are...

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 20, 2012 11 Comments

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Posted by Anne Segal on August 20, 2012 6 Comments

This past Saturday, Tea Party activists from Ohio and around the country converged on Cleveland for the Occupy the Truth for Peace and Justice rally and march. Organized by Andrew Marcus of the upcoming documentary, "Hating Breitbart," the march centered on Andrew Breitbart's charge to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 44 Comments

whether a Republican congressman one year ago jumped in Lake Kinneret, also known as the Sea of Galilee, without his swim trunks on. A year ago. An f-in year ago.  Skinny dipping.  One person.  And some others who -- wait for it -- got drunk. Actually the subject...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 6 Comments

From reader Tracy: We took this photo in Cornelius, North Carolina. The car was from Buncombe County, which is Asheville, one of the most liberal cities in the state. And you can't fix it (language warning): ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2012 171 Comments

The Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri , Todd Akin, made a stupid statement on a talk show today regarding abortion in cases of rape.  I'm not going to defend the statement.  It was similar to Whoppi Goldberg's rape-rape comment.  He now has apologized. Yet the...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 19, 2012 39 Comments

Extortion is the new social justice. We've written before about the bully tactics utilized by organizations like Color of Change in order to achieve their political aims. These tactics are not just abusive and opinion-supressive. They're effective. Major companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart have already cut ties with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2012 82 Comments

Emily's List has been throwing mountains of cash into the Massachusetts Senate race supporting Elizabeth Warren. And we have Emily's List via Twitter to thank for this image of Mike Dukakis in a tank Warren on a Harley: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2012 10 Comments

As detailed here many times, there are just as many Jewish refugees from Arab countries as there are Arab refugees from Israel.  The Jewish refugess are the refugees whose name the United Nations dare not speak. Israel finally is starting to put on the table the...

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