is enough to determine the winner of the primary, we do not know. and the hints about what is going to happen tomorrow are all wobbly, and therefore very interesting. one poll shows debbie halvorson with a four-point lead even after all that bloomberg spending against her. now this poll i should tell you is the work of a local radio host and republican strategist, who was convicted a few years ago for falsifying signatures. he told us today we should not hold that against him. he just got caught on the wrong end of a political prosecution. anyway, his poll shows debbie halvorson leading the pro-gun reform candidate who was endorsed by the bloomberg pac, that s robin kelly. a different poll from we ask america shows a very different result in the same race. in that poll, robin kelly leads by 18 points. now on this one i should tell you that the folks who conducted this survey describe it as an automated poll they did for a local political website. they would not release the full details
chicago and on tv. and even if you don t watch tv, a, you should. tv is way better now. but b, the bloomberg group has still been inescapable in the form of mailers to people they have been sending out in the district. lots and lots of mailers. quote, debbie haverson put the nra before our family s safety. and debbie haverson, a from the nra, f from illinois families. and debbie haverson s views on guns earned an a from the nra. if the nra says yes, we should say no. but the bloomberg pac ad onslaught making the nra and guns a big issue in this race, one of the formally pro nra candidates decided that she would drop out. state senator toi hutchinson left the race 48 hours after the bloomberg pac started advertising against her by name as well. gun reform was not all that big an issue at the beginning. but now that mike bloomberg has spent more than $2 million on this race, being seen as once an ally of the nra is apparently enough to get you to quit the race. and now tonight on the eve
a, you should. tv is way better now. but b, the bloomberg group has still been inescapable in the form of mailers to people they have been sending out in the district. lots and lots of mailers. quote, debbie halvorson put the nra before our family s safety. and debbie halvorson, a from the nra, f from illinois families. and debbie halvorson s views on guns earned an a from the nra. if the nra says yes, we should say no. but the bloomberg pac ad onslaught making the nra and guns a big issue in this race, one of the formally pro nra candidates decided that she would drop out. state senator toi hutchinson left the race 48 hours after the bloomberg pac started advertising against her by name as well. gun reform was not all that big an issue at the beginning. but now that mike bloomberg has spent more than $2 million on this race, being seen as once an ally of the nra is apparently enough to get you to quit the race. and now tonight on the eve of the election, whether that all
0 summer right in the heat of the campaign, an article that acknowledged what everybody else in the media already knew was true, but had not admitted outloud, the website buzz of feed finally put a headline on it and put it up in black and white. mitt romney is terrible for traffic. they mean web traffic. they did what essentially amounted to a control experiment in terms of people s interest online in the two candidates. look. 29 photos of baby barack obama versus 30 photos of mitt romney as a child. essentially, you re offering the same thing. reliably adorable childhood images of people you know now as full grown men. it s the same comparison, apples to apples. the photos of baby obama got just under 70,000 views. the photos of baby romney just over 6,000 views. that is worse than 10 to 1. okay, maybe it s a baby thing. how about if we age them a little. barack obama, i have to say, was not the world s most handsome teenager. those were kind of his awkward years, whereas mitt romney
0 of time to inflict on themselves and on the country. it turns out it is the 2013 equivalent of a baby picture of mitt romney in 2012. awww, yeah, not interesting. the pugh researcher for the people in the press did a big research poll where they asked people what they re paying attention to in the news. it turns out that self-inflicted crises in washington aren t what they used to. they compared crises in the first big fight over the debt ceiling that president obama had with congress in the summer of 2011. they found half the country was paying a lot of attention to that crisis. compare that to the number of people paying attention to this crisis, which substantively is just as big a deal. it turns out it s only half as interesting to the country. only 27% of the country is paying a great deal attention to this current crisis. and honestly, you know what? you can see why. this is not the part where i m going to give you some lament about the country being shallow or craven or easily