The Associated Press is blatantly proving it’s going to make Campaign 2012 a long, biased slog for Republicans. Just take their news coverage of jokes. On Thursday, Democratic objections to Mitt Romney were front and center in an article titled "Democrats criticize Romney for ‘unemployed’ joke." But on Tuesday, President Obama’s lame joke about no "shovel-ready" jobs was relegated to paragraph 16 of an article titled "Obama pledges focus on job creation." (As if we haven't heard that pledge before.) The Romney article began: TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a group of out-of-work Floridians Thursday that "I'm also unemployed," quickly drawing criticism from Democrats who said it showed the former Massachusetts governor and multimillionaire was out of touch.
David Freedlander writes that the GOP primary was shaping up to be Ron DeSantis alone against Donald Trump, but the mini-MAGA warrior has fell behind Nikki Haley.
If Washington looked more like New Hampshire with its diner politics, ubiquitous town meetings and almost comically large state legislature the proposal…