Hotline Sort: Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Shakeup
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12) California Gov. Jerry Brown, with another jab at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: ""I'm flying Southwest and I oftentimes take the middle seat," Brown said. "I don't think Christie is taking the middle seat. So I'm doing my part for austerity."
11) Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is the latest politician to make a Nazi reference.
10) While both parties focus on the 2012 election, new polls out Wednesday suggest that Republican Susana Martinez and Democrat Andrew Cuomo are two of the most popular governors in the country - and attractive members of each party's 2016 bench. An Albuquerque Journal poll shows that 69 percent of New Mexico voters approve of the job Martinez is doing, while a Quinnipiac University poll shows Cuomo has an equally-high, 70 percent approval rating among New York voters.
9) After briefly going dark, Virginia GOP Senate nominee George Allen is back on the air with a new ad, and his campaign will remain on television until Election Day.
8) Arizona Senate nominee Richard Carmona is going up with a new ad that emphasizes his experience dealing with health care, The ad criticizes both parties for how they've handled health care, but makes no mention of President Obama's health care law.
The contest is a magnet for outside cash. The Sacramento media market, which includes up to four potentially competitive House races, is saturated with $10 million in ad reservations by the national parties and various super PACs through Election Day. ... It is also a crucial test of both parties' strength in economically-suffering suburbs such as Elk Grove, once one of the nation's fastest-growing cities but now beset by plummeting home prices and foreclosures. Manicured lawns and colorful flower beds mask the depth of the housing bust. It's an area so hard-hit that local officials are considering exercising eminent domain to buy up troubled mortgages and bail out homeowners.
According to top Democratic leaders in Massachusetts, Warren campaign advisers are considering a new strategy that will be aimed at toning down what those leaders call the preachy tone that has dominated her ads until now. Instead, some of the spots would rely more on the voices of voters from all walks of life describing what Warren's supporters say is the warm personality of a popular university professor. They would also zero in on Brown, acknowledging that while he is a likable public figure, he is not the moderate Republican that he makes himself out to be. Television ads are considered critical to wooing independent voters in one of the most hotly contested Senate races nationwide. The Warren campaign said Tuesday that no decisions have been made, but advisers conceded they have been feeling pressure regarding the thrust of the media strategy in these final weeks.
After saying earlier that Sept. 11 was not the day to criticize President Obama on foreign policy matters, Mitt Romney late Tuesday issued a statement blasting the Obama administration for its Cairo embassy's apology for anti-Muslim activity in the United States. ... The White House later sought to distance itself from that statement, according to Politico. Romney, in his statement, said he was "outraged" by attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. "It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks," Romney said. The Obama campaign responded early Wednesday morning, lambasting Romney for bringing politics into a tragedy. "We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
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