I’m updating nine House races to reflect the newest public polling and news reports. (Yesterday’s update can be found here.) Overall, the individual polling data today has not been good for Democrats. Each day’s new updates are highlighted in green.

David Cay Johnston has a must-read piece on what the most recent payroll tax data shows about growing income inequality. He shows that total wages have fallen 5% since 2007, largely because so many fewer people are making any income.

The Alliance for Retired Americans have placed ads in six key districts across the country, attacking what they describe as Republican plans to raise the retirement age for Social Security benefits. There’s a residual benefit to this as well – it’s a warning shot against Democrats who would like to do the same.

The federal government has a goal of awarding 23 percent of the total value of its purchases to small businesses.  It is not currently meeting that goal.  A recent study by the American Small Business League  (ABSL) found that small businesses only receive between 2 and 6 percent of federal government contracts (PDF). The top [...]

You know that woman who goaded those totally innocent Teabaggers into stomping on her head? She’s an unhinged, left-wing, MoveOn eco-moonbat. Bitch had it coming.

The government is just writing its own novel about Gitmo detainees and the war on terror now.

Ballot measures tend to be much harder to accurately poll than partisan elections. Each initiative is a unique question with its own quirky set of parameters regarding which demographics and psychographics are most likely to support or oppose it. In comparison, all partisan elections between a Democrat and Republican are, at a core level, fairly similar.

In a report released today, Transparency International ranks world governments on a corruption scale from least to most corrupt. For the first time, the United States is no longer among the twenty least corrupt nations, dropping to number twenty-two on the list. Despite this important news, the New York Times appears to be ignoring the report primarily, while the Washington Post is reporting on it only to point out how far Russia has fallen.

Elizabeth Warren isn’t sure of the security of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, given the expected assaults on regulation of any kind with an emboldened Republican caucus after the elections. Nevertheless, she has begun to ramp up the agency, with the expectation of having it ready for action in less than a year’s time.

Republican propagandists recognize there is a danger in being blamed for obstruction and resulting damage to the economy and recession victims. It thus falls on folks like Marc Thiessen to invent a version of history deflects blame for the Republican’s role in crippling the federal government and tanking the economy again.