It’s Wednesday! Joan McCarter day! But I must confess that I have fresh gun madness to discuss, and a growing pile of material that gives still more context to that astounding chart showing how the growth in recent expansion periods picked middle class pockets. Our embedded live stream is temporarily on the blink, but you […]

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Wednesday Margaret and Helen Blogging When last we checked in with the blogosphere’s feistiest pair of lefty octogenarians, they were calling out the Republican candidate in the Texas governor’s race for getting a $10 million settlement after he sued the owner of an oak tree that fell on him, […]

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) Leading Off: • ID-Gov: Republican Gov. Butch Otter has never been particularly popular even in dark red Idaho, but it was still a surprise when the Republican Governor’s Association committed six figures to his re-election at the beginning of October. It was hard to believe that the RGA would spend […]

So big gaffes from both tonight–Grimes’ idiotic nondisclosure of who she voted for for POTUS–McConnell calling OCare KY xchange “fine”— @LukeRussert @LukeRussert @mmurraypolitics you think those are of equal import?— @DemFromCT Brian Beutler: The Media Is Ignoring McConnell’s Obamacare Waffling Because They Don’t Understand It Danny Vinik: McConnell’s Obamacare Lie Is Worse Than Grimes’s Voting […]

The New York Times had published a new report detailing the numerous cases of American and Iraqi soldiers accidentally exposed to chemical agents from Saddam Hussein’s decaying Gulf War era weapons. But as disturbing as the fact that there were “17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers who were exposed to nerve or […]

Brian Beutler on the media’s continued unwillingness to debunk Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ongoing  misrepresentations over Kynect and Obamacare. What’s particularly frustrating about McConnell’s irreconcilable ACA claims is that they would be politically damaging if the political press corps understood the nature of the deception. But unlike Grimes’ comments, which are just plainly absurd, laying McConnell […]

The real-world impact of SB2 A small bit of good news: The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America’s second most-populous state. In an unsigned order, the justices sided with abortion rights advocates and health care providers in […]

Democrats have spent a shit-ton on GOTV efforts, and there’s good evidence it’s working. In North Carolina, which permits early voting, 42,230 people had requested ballots as of Monday. Of that group, 17,364 did not vote in 2010, and among them, Democrats outnumber Republicans, 39 percent to 32 percent. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reports […]

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Yep. Koch owns us. It’s been a few weeks since we learned that the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity was going to get out of the political ad game and focus on the ground campaign, but that they had a new entity that would pick up the slack. This new group will attack Democratic candidates […]