Nevada Democrats are registering voters at a much faster clip than Republicans, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
“New numbers released this week show Democrats have increased their advantage over Republicans to 47,500 voters. Since April, Democratic voter registration has increased by 20,500. Republican registration in that time has increased by 9,700.”
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“It wasn’t about body parts. It wasn’t about dissent. It wasn’t about anyone’s religious beliefs. It was that last comment that took it a step too far, and that’s what crossed the line about … The ‘no means no’ comment. That went a step too far. As I said to someone up north here, it’s like giving a kid a time out for a day, you know. Hey, time out.”
— Michigan state Rep. Wayne Schmidt (R), explaining why state Rep. Lisa Brown (D) was barred from speaking on the House floor for saying the word “vagina.”
“Even before it became clear that Mitt Romney would be the GOP presidential nominee, many wondered whether his most outspoken surrogate, Gov. Chris Christie, was angling for an invitation to run for vice president,” the Newark Star Ledger reports.
“But there’s another high-profile role that could exploit the Garden State governor’s talents and catapult him in the minds of Republican voters already surveying the 2016 field: keynote speaker at the GOP Convention in Tampa.”
A new USC Dornslife/Los Angeles Times poll in California finds that women, independents, moderates and Latinos help President Obama take a commanding lead over Mitt Romney, 56% to 37%.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) “is now embarking on an all-out effort to revive his standing in Texas and prove he’s still a dominant force in the Lone Star State,” Politico reports.
“Unlike other failed White House candidates — Tim Pawlenty, for example — Perry has declined to become one of many full-time foot soldiers for Mitt Romney’s general election campaign. And unlike Sarah Palin, another superstar governor who flamed out as a national candidate, Perry still has a taste for wielding power on the state level. He has toyed publicly with the idea of running for governor again in 2014, and even with another presidential bid down the line.”
“The governor has endorsed 16 candidates for state and local office this year, including throwing his full weight behind Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who is locked in a battle for the Republican Party’s Senate nomination next Tuesday… The decision to back Dewhurst so aggressively represents a gamble that as a three-term governor, Perry is still the political king of Texas.”
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An Associated Press review of campaign finance data found that “only a few hundred donors who contributed to candidates like Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum have changed course and gave to Romney’s campaign or the Republican Party in April. That’s as GOP stalwarts and some former rivals have called on supporters to rally around Romney’s White House run.”
“Out of more than 50,000 donors who gave to
other GOP candidates like Gingrich, Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick Perry
since the start of the nomination race, fewer than 600 appeared to write
checks to Romney in April.”
“Good pic of my son Jimmy’s bulldog, Apollo – I’m sorry Mr. President,
he’s not on the menu!”
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on Twitter, in reference to President Obama eating dog while a child
when he lived abroad in Indonesia.
First Read: “Allegations of sexual harassment inside the North Carolina Democratic Party has turned into a mess for the state party, as well as the national one. Why? Because North Carolina is the convention state, thus ensuring that any problems or controversy there will be magnified. And it isn’t helping the Democrats that the state party chair, David Parker, is refusing to step down from his post.”
The Charlotte Observer reports the allegations are detailed in a letter just made public.
Howard Kurtz: “In politics, the flip-flopper label is deemed deadly, the fingering of a candidate with no fixed principles. But I suspect that, with swing voters at least, it helps Romney. If voters believe he was just throwing red meat to voracious primary voters — and that the real Mitt would govern as a sensible man of the center-right — the damage of the last few months could be mitigated.”
Paul Begala notes the speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run for president in four years has only intensified in the months since she declared she wouldn’t run.
It helps that she’s required to stay out of electoral politics.
“Hillary benefits from the fact that the job is designed to be above the political fray; she hasn’t had to comment on, say, gay marriage or the Trayvon Martin case. It’s a paradox Hillary must understand: the less political you are, the more popular a politician you become; the less you yearn for the presidency, the more the country yearns for you.”
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