Top Headline Comments 8-23-12

Happy Thursday.

Correction: Nelson up by nine. NYTimes reported the numbers wrong. Whoa. The latest Q poll out of Florida shows Connie Mack just jumped way, WAY into the lead, beating Bill Nelson by nine points. A Rasmussen poll released last week had it Nelson over Mack 47/40.

Phil Klein says the Akin affair could be a watershed moment for the conservative movement. His suggestion is that it could break the "typical pattern" where intraparty fights are framed as "grassroots" against "the establishment."

Of course, there are holdouts who would very much like to make this a grassroots v. Establishment fight. I was particularly struck by the defiant tone: "Akin’s words, for which he apologized even though he had no need to, were right. He was entirely correct to say that pregnancies in cases of forcible rape are rare," wrote AFA's Bryan Fischer in a post aimed at "GOP hyenas."

So Democrats want to make the race about abortion? Alright, let's go there. We should definitely keep hammering the economy, but a few ads highlighting Obama's support for third trimester abortions should do nicely in say, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:54 AM

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