Who Runs Gov

* Obama’s political operation is urging voters in Indiana to call their members of Congress — including Dem Senator Evan Bayh — to say where they stand on Obama’s budget. Hmm, didn’t Harry Reid say folks should leave centrist Dems like Bayh alone?

* The public isn’t buying efforts by media figures to blame the economy on Obama.

* The battle between Dem Scott Murphy and GOPer James Tedisco over New York’s 20th district is getting more excruciating by the second. TPM checked in with the state Board of Elections and found that Murphy’s lead has been shaved to all of six votes.

* Don’t miss our brand new profile of Murphy. After all, he could be a Congressman soon. Or not.

* Ben Smith explains the recovery and popularity of Michelle Obama.

* Men are spouses, too.

* The ACLU just announced that they’ve accepted the request by Obama’s Justice Department — which I reported below — to delay the release of three Bush-era “torture” memos. The ACLU says they agreed because Justice has promised that they will also consider releasing another key 2002 memo that was “one of the cornerstones of the CIA’s torture program.”

* Ted Stevens still has to contend with the court of public opinion.

* It didn’t take long for the audio of Eric Cantor to end up in a DNC web ad.

* And if you don’t listen to Michele Bachmann, that obviously means you want to be reduced to a state of slavery for life.

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