"Curses!" says Jamie Kirchick. "Foiled again!":
Paul's number are notably up with Democrats, making up for some slippage with Republicans … [There's] real slippage with "very liberal" voters — a tiny fraction of caucus-goers, at 4 percent. But strong support from moderates and "somewhat" liberal voters, and a bounce with "very conservative" voters, who make up 37 percent of the sample.
I would never suggest that the content of the newsletters are boosting Paul here. Two months ago those "very conservative" voters were ready to nominate Herman Cain. But one week after James Kirchick's Weekly Standard "ahem, remember this?" story kicked off the new wave of Paul stories, it's either a boutique issue that isn't connecting with people, a confusing issue that raises "liberal media bias" hackles with conservatives, or both.
In the week since the scandal emerged, Paul's favorable numbers among Democrats have gone from 59 to 70 percent, and stayed pretty much the same among Republicans and Democrats. So Kirchick's story and our blogospheric debates seem have had one major impact: bolstering Paul's support from the center-left.
The Dish 