Oh noes! A fan! You’ve already learned about Rick Scott’s absolutely bizarre refusal to debate Charlie Crist because Crist had a fan running at the base of his podium. That’s just totally bonkers behavior, but quite a few insider pundits want to make it seem like Crist was the one behaving strangely: Which is odder: […]

Just when you thought Sean Hannity couldn’t get any more full of himself, he goes and creates a new segment on his show where he talks about how great he is. And Stephen has something to say about that. Full video after the jump.

One of the main problems with running a model, especially one that’s polls-only, is that your final result is only as good as the polls that you feed into it. You can do everything right in terms of averaging out the polls and running simulations, and still get tripped up because the polls themselves weren’t […]

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… VOTE The midterms are in nineteen days In eye terms just a blink The candidates are throwing mud And some the kitchen sink (Early, if you can.) The TV set is filled with ads From every super PAC With fear and sleaze and bogus claims It’s enough to make […]

I’m not starting the show until you get that fan out of here, dude. O. M. G. The Never-Ending, Bottomless Chalice of Crazy has been miraculously refilled. And we have two hours to talk about it! So many directions we could go in, each more astonishing than the next. Just sit back and let it […]

Michelle Nunn Leading Off: • GA-Sen, Gov: On Wednesday, SurveyUSA gave Democrat Michelle Nunn her best poll in a long time. The group has her up by a small 48-45 margin over Republican David Perdue, up from Perdue’s 46-45 edge a week before. What’s more important is that Nunn is closer to winning the majority […]

By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest. Nobel-Winning Message for the FCC (Bloomberg View) Roosevelt Institute Fellow Susan Crawford asks whether Jean Tirole’s new Nobel Prize in Economics might convince the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider his work […]

Dallas Morning News: Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records. The 3-day window of Sept. 28-30 […]

Mirror Lake, Yosemite National Park Condemnation for Bill O’Reilly’s idea of using mercenaries to fight ISIS rather than using American forces has been fierce, but he can count on support from one key group: The mercenaries. The man who founded and ran Blackwater—the company that sent thousands of private workers into Afghanistan and Iraq—says President […]

If Florida Gov. Rick Scott loses his bid for re-election next month, everyone—and I mean everyone—is going to blame this surreal moment from Wednesday night’s debate at Broward College with Democrat Charlie Crist. Trust me when I say that you just need to watch this video: Scott literally would not come out to debate Crist […]