Ken Rudin's ScuttleButton 052312 Sorry for the tardiness in getting this week's ScuttleButton puzzle up. Our trusty StateImpact reporters and news directors from around the country were in D.C. this week for an incredibly productive several day fly-in. You should check out the StateImpact web sites of our participating partners to see the kind of collaborative work we are doing. The states are Idaho, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New Hampshire and Florida. OK, back to the button puzzle. ScuttleButton, as you know, is the once a week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday (wait, what day is this?) I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take one word (or concept) per ... Continue reading →
Ron Paul is not going to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Even Ron Paul knows it. His acknowledgement that Mitt Romney will be the nominee is just stating the obvious. But what exactly did he mean when he said last week that he will "no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not voted"? Was he telling us that he was dropping out of the race? Not quite. There was a time, early in this year's cycle, where the guess was that Paul was going to perform far better in 2012 than he did in 2008, when he also sought the GOP nomination. He was better known, his iconoclastic views ... Continue reading →
Enlarge Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A GOP superPAC has backed down on its plan to create anti-Obama attack ads featuring the president's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A GOP superPAC has backed down on its plan to create anti-Obama attack ads featuring the president's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It's the 300th episode of the It's All Politics podcast, and we hear from not only NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin, but from The Listener, as well. Plus: one anti-Obama group wavers on hearing more from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Nebraska Republicans decide they've heard enough political mudslinging, and Americans Elect fails to find a candidate it can promote. Continue reading →
Ken Rudin's ScuttleButton 051512 I'm less concerned about why JPMorgan lost $2 billion on ScuttleButton futures than I am about you solving this week's puzzle. ScuttleButton, as you know, is the once a week waste of time exercise in which each Monday or Tuesday (whatever) I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take one word (or concept) per button, add 'em up, and, hopefully, you will arrive at a famous name or a familiar expression. (And seriously, by familiar, I mean it's something that more than one person on Earth would recognize.) For years, a correct answer chosen at random would get his or her name posted in this column, an incredible honor in itself. Now ... Continue reading →
