Visual source: Newseum
WaPo:
In an off-year election defined by ballot measures, the defeat of the Ohio referendum is a victory for labor organizers, and Mississippi voters deal a blow to people seeking to redefine the start of life.
Restores your faith in democracy, don't it?
WaPo:
More than six in 10 Americans see a widening gap between the wealthy and the less well-off in this country, and about as many want the federal government to try to shrink the divide, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Democrats and independents largely support government policies to reduce the wealth gap, while most Republicans oppose such action. The issue cuts even more sharply along a new political fault line, with tea party supporters and those backing the fledgling Occupy Wall Street movement on opposite sides of the question.
What? Activist government? And take your hands off my Medicare.
More:
Support for Occupy Wall Street in this poll matches that of the tea party movement, with more than four in 10 adults backing each political movement. Only 15 percent support both, and while the two groups are demographically similar, they hold vastly different political allegiances. Almost seven in 10 Occupy Wall Street supporters identify or lean toward the Democratic Party, while more than six in 10 tea party backers are Republicans.
Whose side are you on?
Charles Blow:
I saw that. I saw you grimace when you read Herman Cain’s name in yet another headline. (Well, at least I imagined it.) Relax. This is about a narrow subject: conflicting poll results from major polling groups on who does or doesn’t believe the allegations against him. All my numbers nerds say, “Yeah!”
Listen, this is all about conservatives not wanting to deal with reality and nothing more. See
Kathleen Parker wrestling out loud with reality:
Be still my sisters. I’m not suggesting that Bialek was asking for anything more than a job. I’m merely trying to put myself in Cain’s shoes and see things as he might have. And this is where he gets into trouble. No amount of rationalizing, no amount of wine (Bialek recalled that he probably had a couple of glasses with dinner), nothing really justifies this alleged behavior. If Bialek is telling the truth, then Herman Cain is a predator, not to mention a boor, and no man for the presidency.
Dana Milbank:
In one area, though, President Obama has so far thwarted Republicans: He has not given them a juicy scandal. There was Solyndra, the solar company that went bust after getting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. There have been some resignations by administration officials because of dubious things in their past, and there has been the odd flap over unpaid taxes.
And I can't not mention what it's like to lose power for a week. The blog-like Patch was everyone's go-to source for news and comments:
As some Avon [CT] residents approached their eleventh day without power, the police arrested two that they said may have been trying to take a different approach to get Connecticut Light & Power to restore their electricity.
Riki L. Motes, 48, who did not have power in her home on 535 Lovely St. Tuesday, was growing frustrated with CL&P crews and made reference to harming herself if her power was not restored, police said. She was charged with disorderly conduct.
Take it out on
Republicans, not the hard-working light crews:
Early [CT] Election results showed Democratic candidates making big gains in Tuesday’s election, knocking out Republican incumbents and in some instances winning open seats vacated by Republicans.
All gains will be dismissed by Republicans as "low turnout" and "not predictive". So it goes. Still, ballot initiatives were won in
OH,
MS and
ME.