Hotline Sort: Neck-and-Neck in New Hampshire
Updated at 10:40 a.m.
Welcome back to Hotline Sort. Artur Davis will speak at the GOP Convention, Majority PAC and the League of Conservation Voters target George Allen, another Democratic poll shows a tight Senate race in Indiana, and more nominating petition problems for Thad McCotter.
10) In an attempted compliment for Michelle Obama while speaking in Iowa, President Obama accidentally dissed his mother-in-law. The Des Moines Register:
As he attempted to praise first lady Michelle Obama's speaking skills in her introduction, Obama ranked the family by charisma, intending to put himself modestly at the bottom of the household.
"I don't usually like to follow her as a speaker because, let's face it, on the charisma ratings in my household, you have her, the girls, Bo, and then, and then my mother-in-law and then me," he said.
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"Actually, my mother-in-law is before Bo, I should say that," he said, shifting quickly into damage control. "I love my mother-in-law, too. That's where Michelle got her looks."
9) Campaigning with Mitt Romney in Ohio, GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel briefly spoke in a southern accent, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports:
In Beallsville, Romney briefly yielded the stage to U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel, who gave an odd minute-and-a-half speech where he started with a southern accent unheard before. Mandel lives in Lyndhurst near Cleveland.
8) Politico reports that a pro-gay rights super PAC created by GOP hedge fund executive Paul Singer, is about to invest in its first three House races, advertising on behalf of Reps. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., Richard Hanna, R-N.Y. and Judy Biggert, R-Ill.
7) Yikes. More problems were discovered with former Michigan Rep. Thad McCotter's nominating petitions -- starting back in 2002. The Detroit Free Press:
A review of the nominating petitions turned in for McCotter's elections from 2002 through 2012 shows he did not have enough signatures to qualify to run in at least the 2008, 2010 and 2012 elections.
6) Republicans captured both of New Hampshire's congressional districts in 2010, but a new WMUR-TV Granite State Poll released Wednesday shows both Reps. Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass are locked in neck-and-neck races with the same Democrats they defeated two years ago. Former Rep. Carol Shea Porter, D-N.H., leads Guinta in the 1st District, 45 percent to 43 percent, while Bass leads Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in the 2nd District, 42 percent to 37 percent. The sample sizes in each district are fairly small, and each race is within the margin of error.
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