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May 25, 2012 8:35am Female Juror Flirts With John Edwards John Edwards Here’s a riddle: What comes in group of four and is the color of French’s Mustard? After a week of deliberations, the four alternate jurors have become the prime distraction for the assembled press corps and spectators in the courtroom. On Thursday the alternates – three women and one man – caused something of a stir when they showed up in matching bright yellow shirts, hardly bothering to suppress their snickering as the judge addressed the main panel of jurors. For nearly four weeks, 16 jurors heard all the evidence in Edwards’ case. After the closing arguments, Judge Catherine Eagles made the unorthodox decision to extend the service of the four alternate jurors, ... Continue reading →
How to spin the president's youthful indiscretions as a window into his political philosophy -- including Obamacare's individual mandate. A right-wing cottage industry has sprung up devoted to the idea that the media did not sufficiently vet Barack Obama four years ago. Despite their sound and fury, the person doing the most to actually reveal new information about the president's past is David Maraniss, the Washington Post reporter who is author of a forthcoming biography of the president. Earlier this month, we learned that while Obama had admitted to creating composite characters out of college girlfriends, he hadn't admitted how terrible his love letters to the young ladies were. Today, there's another bombshell, by way of the appropriately named BuzzFeed. While Obama admitted to having ... Continue reading →
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By Michael O'Brien Democrats enjoy a slight advantage over their Republican challengers in three key Senate races in Ohio, Florida and Virginia, according to three new NBC-Marist polls released Thursday.Democrats lead by varying margins in a series of contests that could determine whether Republicans are able to achieve the net-gain of four seats they need to retake control of the Senate if President Barack Obama wins re-election; they need to pick up just three seats if the Democratic incumbent loses. A separate poll shows a virtually tied race in a fourth state, Massachusetts, that the GOP is battling to hold in November.Obama edges Romney in 3 key battleground statesIn Ohio, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown leads his Republican opponent, state Treasurer Josh Mandel, by a 14-point ... Continue reading →
Elizabeth Warren is largely unscathed by the weeks-long controversy surrounding her ancestry, according to a new Suffolk University poll released Wednesday evening.The survey shows the Massachusetts Democrat trailing GOP Sen. Scott Brown by a single percentage point, with Brown netting 48 percent to Warren’s 47 percent. The result marks a measurable shift towards Warren since the last Suffolk poll in February, which had Brown up 9 points, 49 percent to 40 percent. Continue Reading The poll of 600 likely voters was in the field Sunday through Tuesday, more than three weeks after the Boston Herald first reported Warren’s Native American heritage listing at Harvard Law School when she was a professor there in the 1990s. Since then, Warren has been ensnared in a round of ... Continue reading →
