Mark Blumenthal:
1) Obama’s performance among white voters in MS was on par with other deep South states
2) One difference: 2-3 times as many self-identified Republicans participated who, for the first time, favored Clinton 75-25.
The Limbaugh effect is spreading. Not very effective, though. He won by 24 points.
"With Senator Clinton’s refusal to denounce or reject Ms. Ferraro, she has once again proven that her campaign gets to live by its own rules and its own double standard, and will only decry offensive comments when it’s politically advantageous to Senator Clinton. Her refusal to take responsibility for her own supporter’s remarks is exactly the kind of tactic that feeds the American people’s cynicism about politics today and it’s why Barack Obama’s message of change has resonated so strongly in every corner of the country," – Bill Burton, Obama campaign spokesman.
A reader writes:
You need to seriously examine Obama’s incredibly controversial stance on abortion for the election, considering the political implications it can have over galvanizing the Pro Life Community against the Pro Choice community and how it can affect the dialogue and debate in the run-up to the election.
How can Obama be somebody who "brings people together" when he blocked the Illinois BAIPA bill from even reaching the floor of the state senate (when it finally did reach the floor he voted against it twice). If he has a record of "bringing people together" for "the change we seek", surely his BAIPA stance denigrates it. This was during and after the crimes against humanity—which Jill Stanek, an Illinois nurse, brought to national attention—took place. It chills my blood. How can he (and his supporters like you) talk about a "new era" of American Politics, an end to the "Bush-Cheney Torture Regime", and still justify his staunch opposition to ban the practice of killing babies after they were "failed to be aborted" (in other words, "born"); all in the name for the "woman’s right to choose"?
John Zmirak wrote a few days ago that seamless web pro-lifers don’t have a candidate. I find Obama’s absolutist position on abortion out of sync with his usual temperateness.
News of the weird and Japanese.
Chait and Yglesias talk over the Internets.
Are the conservatives right about the Clintons? Will they do and say anything to get elected?
I don’t know.
All I know is…I’m through apologizing.
Even nerds can wear jewelry.
A memoir from Brian Paddick, formerly London’s police chief and now a candidate for mayor:
He had realised I was gay and wanted to sleep with me. I was petrified. I was 21 and a virgin. ‘All I want to do is sleep with you,’ Barry said. ‘We don’t even have to touch.’ His proposition brought a mixture of desire and absolute terror. Trembling, I nodded and we went to bed. After a while we fell asleep. Several hours later I woke up to find I wasn’t shaking any more; my desire overcame my fear. I had mixed feelings about this first sexual encounter. Everything I had learnt screamed that this was wrong – at the same time it felt instinctively right.
Somehow, I can’t imagine a candidate for a big city mayor in the US publishing such a book.
Radley Balko reports. Anonymous readers, er, comment.
A depressing look at the environmental costs of the polysilicon industry in China – the material used for solar panels.
