The Scott McAdams campaign decided Wednesday evening to initially feed the results of the Hays Research poll, the first to show Joe Miller in dead last place, to the blogosphere. Influential Alaska media outlets have openly declared for Lisa Murkowski, and the campaign felt it would be better to give initial spin to new media than to outlets who might spin the poll results adversely to McAdams’ campaign, which gained new wind in its sails Thursday as a result of the fresh breeze.

There’s a lot of hubbub today about this Bloomberg poll, showing that Americans don’t pay attention to CBO or NBER reports or watch C-SPAN very often. What matters to people is whether or not their personal situations have improved.

If ever there were an election where the alternative was so bad that the unpopular incumbent could turn the race into a choice instead of referendum, it is this election in Nevada.

In 1976, Reggae legend Peter Tosh released the song and album “Legalize It,” which quickly became an anthem for the marijuana reform movement. Tosh was murdered in his Jamaica home in 1987, and since that time, his family and his estate have not been in public with Peter’s legacy.

Now, in 2010, the family of Peter Tosh is for the first time coming out and announcing its strong support of California’s Proposition 19 and the Just Say Now Campaign to legalize marijuana nationwide, including the launch of a new video from Peter Tosh’s son Dave, intended to help mobilize voters to go to the polls November 2.

In violation of state and federal election laws, a McDonald’s franchise in Ohio sent a note in the paychecks of their workers urging them to vote for Republicans in next Tuesday’s elections. And they implicitly threatened to stop all wage and benefit increases if those Republicans do not win, essentially tying the future economic fortunes of their employees to their vote.

The media and right-wing blogosphere are all over the story of an anonymous journalist being seduced five years ago by Christine O’Donnell, who at the time was clearly intoxicated and wearing a rather provocative Halloween costume.

According to the latest WSJ/NBC poll, the health care bill is “particularly unpopular in the districts that matter most in the Republicans’ effort to retake the House”: According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 52% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who wanted to give the [...]

In pursuing his strategy to “look forward, as opposed to looking backwards“, President Obama is abandoning his oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” so that he can pick and choose just which laws will be “faithfully executed”. This contrast is driven home most fully in contemplating Obama’s refusal to label the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy as unconstitutional while at the same time allowing a key statute of limitations date to pass soon on destruction of evidence in torture investigations.

Halliburton and the other companies involved, like Transocean, have been pointing the finger at BP, and vice versa. At stake is responsibility for the tens in billions in expected fines for violating the Clean Water Act and other environmental statutes, as well as claims from individuals seeking damages.

The White House, from Robert Gibbs to David Axelrod to President Obama himself, refuses to tell us whether they think Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is constitutional or unconstitutional. They claim that since the president is not on the Supreme Court, it’s not right for them to speculate. But way back in the prehistoric times of March of this year, the White House was fully engaged on answering constitutional questions about laws — specifically the health care law.