The fate of Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana in California, is still very much up in the air. Depending on which most recent polls you look at, the measure is either winning by a few points or losing by a few points. Looking into the crosstabs of the polling on this proposition, it is clear that the success or failure of Prop 19 rides on the ability of its supporters to get out the vote.

The independent chief actuary of Social Security says predicts big benefit cuts for the middle class if privatization and indexing are part of Social Security reform.

Valerie Jarrett says the president wants Congress to repeal DADT. But she won’t say the law is unconstitutional.

Remember, The Quitter also tweeted something similar when Dr. Laura was fired. And during the 2008 presidential campaign she said something even stupider, that receiving negative press coverage was tantamount to her Constitutional rights being abridged.

A new poll from California’s PPIC has Prop 19 down, 49% to 44%. Our Jon Walker analyzed the results this morning, suggesting that the wild swing from PPIC’s last poll is suspect. It’s easy to get caught up in poll after poll as the newest snapshot, so it’s always important to look at the trends from all the polling on the topic. No matter what, though, the bottom line is: turnout, turnout, turnout. But let’s take a closer look at what’s happening.

Quick question: Where are the Fannie and Freddie losses coming from? Answer: bad loans they bought. Quick question: Where did the bad loans come from? Answer: the banks.

I’ve got a slightly different take than DDay on the news that Fidelity just established a policy requiring lenders to warrant all foreclosure sales going forward. I take it as an admission from Fidelity National that it cannot or will not adequately do that main part of its job: review the documents on a house and make sure the documents say what they appear to say.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has put a temporary stay on the worldwide ban on discharges of gay and lesbian service members under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. However, this doesn’t mean that stay will continue; in fact, the three judges haven’t even heard the case.

I’m not surprised by this — but I simply don’t understand how the Obama Administration can claim they haven’t found anything fundamentally flawed (though that could be HuffPo’s formulation) when thousands of people have been thrown out of their homes based on documents whose signers falsely attested to those documents.

Given the question, I suppose she really couldn’t have gone with “all of them.”