Karl Rove's Sleazy Crossroads GPS Group to Run Attack Ads for Ed Martin

Karl Rove's sleazy, anti-Democratic group Crossroads GPS, which has spent tens of millions of dollars on the 2010 elections without having to disclose its donors, is scheduled to start running attack ads against Congressman Russ Carnahan on Wednesday according to the Washington Post. This group represents the exact opposite of the Democratic process, where anonymous billionaires can spend unlimited amounts of money trying to push their agenda without anyone even knowing what they're doing. So its not surprising at all that they would support another arch enemy of transparency, Ed Martin, who as chief of staff attempted to violate Missouri state sunshine laws, lied about it, and then fired and smeared a person who tried to get him to follow the law.

Update: FiredUp Missouri helpfully points out FactCheck.org's documentation of Crossroad's history of "false and misleading" advertisements.

CNN's Lame Poll

I was really shocked last week when a poll came out from CNN/Time that showed Roy Blunt leading Robin Carnahan by 13 points. Naturally, all the state Republicans were proclaiming that the race was over (but even they clearly didn't believe it, since they continued attacking Carnahan). I've been wondering why this poll would be sooo much worse than any others I had seen (even the Republican-leaning Rasmussen). Well, I after discussing it with some friends, I finally looked at the internals of the poll, and I found a couple amazing gaps.

First of all, they listed N/A for "non-white" respondents:

They also listed N/A for the 18-34 age group:


In other words, the poll was completely missing two major demographics that would be far more likely to vote for Carnahan. And since from what I hear Robin kicked some serious butt in the debate today, this just might be an interesting race yet!

And while we're on the subject, put me in the Rachel Maddow camp of saying we should be talking about Roy Blunt's support from the foreign-funded, pro-outsourcing U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove's secretive Crossroads group all day long: