Motivation.

Actually, let’s give the first word on this subject to Politico’s editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker, who as Joe Wiesenthal pointed out on Twitter is one of the few to capture the irony of the IRS targeting of the Tea Party: Now, er … what was that again at the Washington Post? The Internal Revenue Service’s decision [...]

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Disqualifiers.

Politico reported earlier today that Washington DC has begun to turn against Barack Obama and his administration.  Thanks to Obama’s own arrogance, write Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, he has little good will inside the Beltway anyway, and that leaves him with few passionate defenders in the latest scandal cascade: The town is turning on [...]

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Ramirez: Another Watergate?

Give Glenn Kessler credit; he was almost alone among the mainstream media in immediately calling Susan Rice’s explanation of the attack on the Benghazi consulate fishy, awarding her two Pinocchios at the time. (Perhaps not too much credit, says Ann Althouse, via Instapundit.)  Should that get bumped up now that whistleblowers are prepared to blow [...]

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What do you expect from 4%?

Barack Obama might be employing “the audacity of mope” after the failure of his gun-control initiative, but he’s mostly alone.  According to a new poll from the Washington Post and Pew, there is no rising tide of outrage over the failure to pass any kind of gun-control legislation this month.  In fact, there are about [...]

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"Decade-long-trend"?

Perhaps we should be happy that the Washington Post has finally noticed that the labor force has rapidly eroded during the so-called recovery in the Barack Obama presidency, but they still seem to have trouble with the data.  Friday’s jobs report for March 2013, with its below-population-growth level of 88,000 jobs added and the exodus [...]

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Actually, the option.

Let’s see if you can figure out what Pew and the Washington Post left out of this poll question about blame for the sequester.  I won’t even give you a hint, even if Rovin had to tip me to this by e-mail: Say, where is the option for Senate Democrats? It might be a secret [...]

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The Midas touch.

Worth posting for two reasons. One, obviously: It’s newsworthy that a big majority of GOPers are open to a path to citizenship in the abstract. Don’t put it past The One to screw that up by turning the Senate immigration debate into a partisan pissing match, but for the moment there’s at least some reason [...]

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He's just not that into you.

Usually you see this kind of cri de coeur from blogs on the Left and Right over a lack of access to major political candidates and officeholders.  Among all newspapers, the Washington Post would be the least likely to complain about being ignored.  It’s the big dog in the Beltway and drives the news cycle [...]

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Legs.

The national media may not be asking about underaged hookers — yet — but they’re getting a lot more interested in whether Senator Bob Menendez prostituted his office on behalf of a big donor.  After an FBI raid this week targeted the offices of Menendez crony and contributor Salomon Melgen, Menendez scurried to round up [...]

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Dismissed.

Normally I’d be tempted to just add this as an update to the previous post, but it’s just too delicious not to highlight on its own.  As Duane wrote in his GR post, Piers Morgan went from his embarrassing display in his interview with Ben Shapiro to lamenting about Shapiro’s “intransigent” performance with Mark Kelly [...]

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Momentum.

Of the last seven national polls taken, he leads five and is tied in another. Four of those polls now have him up by exactly three points, and three of them — Rasmussen, Gallup, and this one — now have the race precisely at 50/47. Consensus. Second look at getting rid of the electoral college? [...]

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Down to the wire.

It’s a two-point gain, flipping a 49/48 lead for O into one for Romney, which isn’t statistically significant. It also doesn’t include reaction to the debate. That’ll start being priced in tomorrow. So why post it? Two reasons. First, it’s been maybe half an hour since we’ve had any poll news on the site and, [...]

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Plus: Big swing in the battleground states.

I know you’ve got poll fatigue but we’re in a news holding pattern ahead of the debate. This one’s topical, though: Even before the first words are spoken in Florida tonight, Romney’s surged into a near tie with O on the two core components of foreign policy. Consider it insurance against a poor performance this [...]

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