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Theory on the convention’s mystery speaker: Nancy Reagan?
Colin Powell? Douglas Wilder? Joe Manchin? Ben Domenech tweets that an appearance by GOP former first ladies makes the most sense. I agree, with the caveat that Barbara and Laura Bush aren’t big...
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Change: Obama’s lead down to two points in Iowa
Hope. Three months ago his lead there was 10, but that was probably due to some anti-Romney Republicans still harboring hard feelings from the primary. Three months later, those are all gone. And so,...
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Christie: Let’s face it, Romney probably wishes he didn’t make that...
“I think if he had to do it over again, he wouldn’t make the joke.” That was my hunch too. Which, between the two of us, means this is now the official RINO position on Romney’s Birther goof....
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Reince Priebus: Todd Akin’s not getting a penny from the RNC, even if the...
“Vendetta”? Via Ben Howe and Chris Loesch of Revealing Politics. Two possibilities. One: Priebus is bluffing in order to keep up the pressure on Akin to drop out. If he betrays any willingness to...
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Yahoo bureau chief: The GOP is happy to have a party while black people drown
Hot mic. Via Newsbusters. He’s now the former bureau chief: Yahoo News confirms: “David Chalian’s statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated...
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Family Research Council poll of Missouri: Akin 45, McCaskill 42
Hmmmm. Given that they’re among his biggest (i.e. few) supporters, this is roughly as credible as an internal poll. But since we’re in a holding pattern news-wise until Ryanpalooza erupts at the...
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Just a reminder: Obama campaigning today, doing online chat while storm...
Priorities. Ace flagged this yesterday but I want to amplify it now. Because Isaac has finally hit full force, we’re bound to experience some truly excruciating media hackery tonight about Republicans...
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Snap poll: Romney’s favorable rating rises five points overnight, Christie’s...
Bounce. Alternate headline: “So far, so good.” I assume most of this is due to Ann, whose speech dwelled entirely on Mitt, versus Christie, who didn’t mention him until 16 minutes in. But even so,...
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Fired Yahoo bureau chief: Sorry for my inappropriate “joke”
Plus: MSNBC explains why goofing on Obama for golfing is racist. Go watch the clip again. There’s nothing jokey or witty or clever about it. It’s a straightforward accusation of racism and...
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Fox News source: Yep, Clint Eastwood is tonight’s mystery speaker; Update:...
Or is he? Via Dan Riehl and Ace, you already sort of knew this but now you really sort of know it: Officials confirmed Wednesday that a surprise guest was still on the schedule but declined further...
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Newest racist dog whistle: “Chicago”
Dogged. Via the Right Newz and Newsbusters, this one’s much easier than Lawrence O’Donnell’s tortured “golf = racist” theory last night. Just a few easy steps: Obama administration –> corruption...
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PPP: McCaskill 45, Akin 44 in Missouri
Change? Another week, another encouraging poll for Akin from dKos’s pollster. The last one, which was based on a ridiculous R+9 sample, helped convince him to stay in the race. Now, with the GOP still...
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Not a single mention of the tea party in primetime at the convention so far?
Silence. Via Doug Mataconis, so says BuzzFeed after studying the transcripts. Dave Weigel had already noticed a conspicuous absence of TP mentions on Tuesday night, when Ted Cruz alluded to a “great...
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New conservative ad: The faded Obama poster on the wall
Hopeless. From Crossroads Generation, a new spot recalling the most memorable line from Ryan’s speech last night. Much like the Democrats’ Mediscare tactics, this ad is designed less to get a core...
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Romney on offense: Nine new pro-Bain ads now available on YouTube
Plus: First signs of a convention bounce? Via Mark Hemingway, in case you were wondering how important Bain would be to his speech tonight, wonder no longer. Not only did nine new ads just materialize...
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Video: Romney’s moving convention intro clip
Family. If you missed it last night, watch it now. My impression from scanning Twitter while this was rolling shortly before 10 p.m. ET was that it was almost as successful as the Oparowskis’ speech....
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Biden to table of Greek men: “I’m Joe Bidenopoulos”
“Can I get some rice pudding to go?” There are two categories of Biden idiocies, the ones that are genuinely offensive (“They gon’ put y’all back in chains”) and the ones that aren’t really offensive...
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Confirmed: Line-up of speakers at Democratic convention is simply terrible
Disappointment. Ace wrote about this yesterday but I didn’t have time to look at the list until now. Go see for yourself. I went through it being as objective as I could about who might be interesting...
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Change: As Romney visits Louisiana, Obama alters schedule for earlier visit...
Leadership. He was planning to visit on Monday all along, Jay Carney assured the press today, just, er, as soon as his campaign event in Ohio was over. Now the event is canceled and he’ll fly to...
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Hollywood Reporter: MSNBC producer at convention shoves man for heckling...
Hardball. You need to look at it from their perspective. They’d been pushed to the breaking point by having to listen to three days of hate-code, words like “Constitution” and “the.” If you were as...
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