Mike Huckabee said that he’d quit the Republican party if it raised “the white flag of surrender” and “abdicated” on same sex marriage, Newsmax reports.
Said Huckabee: “I’ll become an independent. I’ll start finding people that have guts to stand. I’m tired of this.”
“Less than 24 hours after news broke of a secret marriage, Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes tearfully apologized to Oregonians and to her fiancé, Gov. John Kitzhaber, for accepting $5,000 to illegally marry an 18-year-old Ethiopian in need of a green card,” the Oregonian reports.
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“A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin’s voter ID law late Thursday, issuing a terse yet dramatic one-page ruling less than four weeks before the Nov. 4 election,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
“The 6-3 vote means in all likelihood the requirement to show ID at the polls will not be in effect for the election. But Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he would seek ways to reinstate the law within the month.”
“Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans approved the law in 2011, but it was quickly blocked by a series of court decisions in four lawsuits. It was reinstated by a federal appeals court in recent weeks, but Thursday’s ruling again put the law on hold.”
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“The White House is drafting options that would allow President Barack Obama to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by overriding a congressional ban on bringing detainees to the U.S.,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Such a move would be the latest and potentially most dramatic use of executive power by the president in his second term. It would likely provoke a sharp reaction from lawmakers, who have repeatedly barred the transfer of detainees to the U.S.”
“The discussions underscore the president’s determination to follow through on an early campaign promise before he leaves the White House, officials said, despite the formidable domestic and international obstacles in the way.”
A new Richard Stockton College poll in New Jersey finds Sen. Cory Booker (D) leads challenger Jeff Bell (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 39%.
A new Pan Atlantic SMS poll in Maine finds Gov. Paul LePage (R) leads challenger Mike Michaud (D) in the race for governor, 39% to 34%, with Eliot Cutler (I) at 20%.
A new Rasmussen survey shows LePage leading Michaud, 41% to 40%, with Cutler at 16%.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told David Brody that challenger Greg Orman (I) is lying about how he’ll vote in the Senate but says he’ll be exposed “when we get through with him.”
Said Roberts: “Not when we get through with him. This is a person who by donation and by his stand on the issues is a liberal Democrat.”
Meanwhile, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told KSHB-TV that Orman will not be allowed to caucus with Republicans if he wins: “He’s not gonna do that. It is an impossibility. It is not possible.”
CNN: “Four weeks away from the 2014 midterm elections and even some Democratic operatives struggle to imagine a scenario where they retain control of the U.S. Senate. The terrain and current momentum seem all but overwhelming and against them.”
Washington Post: “For months, the 2014 midterm election has looked like a deck stacked in favor of Republicans. But as campaign season heads into its final weeks, some wild cards are now on the table in states where the GOP had been expecting easy victories on its way to gaining six seats for control of the Senate.”
The Washingtonian released their annual survey of congressional staffers.
Larry Pressler (I) told The Hill that he won’t say who he’d caucus with if he wins his independent U.S. Senate race in South Dakota but said that if elected, he’d be a “friend of Obama.”
He also confirmed voting for Obama twice: “I don’t regret those votes, ’cause on that day, that’s how I felt.”
Anchorage police released a report regarding a brawl involving about 20 people — including members of Sarah Palin’s family — that occurred last month, the Alaska Dispatch News reports.
“Police said they arrived to find Track Palin, shirtless, bloody and heavily intoxicated, getting into a white limousine to leave the party. Witnesses described a large fight involving at least 20 people that included members of the Palin family. Several witnesses said they watched Bristol Palin repeatedly punch homeowner Korey Klingenmeyer in the face.”
Read the entire police report online.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), who left Congress after being shot in the head by a gunman at a constituent event, put out a powerful new ad for Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ).
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) “will be spending at least five days in the New Hampshire in October alone,” WMUR reports.
“For the most part Sanders seems to be doing the college town circuit this month. He is hoping to both get Democratic voters excited to vote on Nov. 4 and introduce himself at the same time… Sanders has already been to the state four times exploring a run for president.”
A new SurveyUSA poll in Georgia finds David Perdue (R) can’t manage to pull away from Michelle Nunn (D) in the race for Senate and leads by just one point, 46% to 45%.
Key finding: “Nunn holds an exceptionally high 87% of the Democratic base. That is the only way she can remain competitive in a contest where, today, independents break nearly 5:3 for her Republican opponent.”
In the race for governor, Gov. Nathan Deal (R) leads challenger Jason Carter (D) by just two points, 46% to 44%
A new WMUR Granite State Poll in New Hampshire shows Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (R) leading challenger Scott Brown (R) by six points among likely voters, 47% to 41%.
This is fascinating: An Enormous Divide on Economic Recovery
A new CNN/ORC International poll in Alaska finds Dan Sullivan (R) leading Sen. Mark Begich (D) by six points in the U.S. Senate race, 50% to 44%.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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