Scott Moss (law professor, Arena):
A great, great night for Democrats...
I don’t mean to be too pollyanna for the Dems: the Republicans likely will pick up House and Senate seats if for no other reason than that the president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections; and the likelihood that the economy stays somewhat or very bad will hurt the party in power. But we have to start rethinking the "1994 all over again" meme.
David Corn:
Is Rand Paul merely riding a Tea Party-only wave or one of larger dimension? Kaine—and everyone else—will have to wait until November to find out.
Dave Wasserman (Cook Political Report):
#PA12 turnout: 81,000 Ds to 45,000 Rs. Still sizeable Dem crossover vote for Burns, but huge GOP surge just a myth
Eugene Robinson:
Back when I was a Green Beret commando in the final days of the Vietnam War, moving unseen and unheard along the Ho Chi Minh Trail like a ninja, wreaking havoc in the enemy's lines and then disappearing like a ghost... Okay, okay, I regret that misstatement. If you want to get all technical about it, I've never served in the military at all, much less in Vietnam. I did have a draft number, back in the day, but it was a pretty high one. If my number had been called, I'd have scrambled to get a deferment.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- who also never served in Vietnam -- regrets his misstatements, too.
Greg Sargent:
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal just wrapped up his damage control presser, and it seems obvious enough that he'll survive this mess. Quick reaction:
Amen to that. Rob Simmons seems better able to take advantage of it compared to Linda McMahon, the likely winner.
Dana Milbank:
When was it, exactly, that the Republican Revolution merged with the sexual revolution?
With each passing year, the Class Notes for the famous Class of '94 House Republicans get more and more lurid. The latest entry was submitted Tuesday morning by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana.
AP:
Global efforts to control tuberculosis have failed and radical new approaches are needed, experts said Wednesday.
With more than 9 million people infected last year, including 2 million deaths, officials say there is more tuberculosis now than at any other time in history. In a special tuberculosis edition of the British medical journal Lancet published on Wednesday, experts said past failures prove new strategies are required.
For years, the World Health Organization and partners have fought TB largely with a program where health workers watch patients take their drugs -- even though the agency acknowledged in a 2008 report that this treatment program didn't significantly curb TB spread.
Experts said TB isn't only a medical problem, but is intertwined with poverty, as it spreads widely among people living in overcrowded, dirty places. They said TB programs need to go beyond health and include other sectors like housing, education and transportation.