Happy Hour Roundup
* You may have heard that Senator Chris Dodd is in a bit of trouble — he’s facing a stiff challenge from Robert Simmons, a former GOP Congressman and CIA agent.
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* On Dodd, the NRSC is already confident of victory.
* On the topic of the media’s treatment of that Dick Cheney interview, John Aravosis points out another crucial dimension to it that we all missed.
* And HuffPo’s Jason Linkins has a typically funny take.
* Ben Smith is tired of Twitter as a media phenom. Here, here!
* Though George Stephanopoulos’ “Twitterview” with John McCain did make news, and Sam Stein ferrets out a key nugget: McCain saying it’s “too early” to determine whether Obama has made us less safe.
* Arlen Specter says he won’t make any deals with the AFL-CIO about swapping support for the Employee Free Choice Act for the union federation’s support in 2010.
* Speaking of EFCA, a new Gallup poll finds that a majority is in favor of it when it’s described as “a new law that would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers.”
* But Rasmussen has a very different finding on EFCA, you’ll be surprised to learn.
* Eric Kleefeld says that on EFCA, it’s all in the phrasing.
* And The Weekly Standard jumps on that NPR poll finding that Dems and Republicans are tied in the generic Congressional matchup.
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That Rasmussen poll is amazingly slanted. Just absurd. Why does the media take those polls seriously? Don’t answer that…
Re Aravosis on Cheney/King and the Iraq big lie..both Ari Fleischer and Frank Gaffney have done the same thing within the last five days (both on Hardball).
Dodd is being smeared: http://mediamatters.org/items/200903170026?f=h_latest
Greg
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Have you seen this re the attack ad against Scott Murphy?
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http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/12519/when-asked-for-evidence-pac-withdraws-anti-murphy-ad