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Political Logic in the Healthcare Vote
Hotline’s Reid Wilson: The Health Care Outliers The higher the percentage of seniors, the more likely members took heat for their votes in favor. … But members didn’t always follow the political logic. Here are the 10 Dems in districts with the highest percentage of uninsured constituents who voted against …
Bruce Braley Baseball Haven [Office Space]
CQ – Roll Call’s Ali McSherry has another edition of office space out. This time she’s visiting with Congressman Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)
Hyper Hill
First Ladies [Project Beltway] Suspicious Package [Friday] Overheard [DCist] Math [exposed]
And the winner for most ridiculously staged photo in a campaign setting ….
Goes to …. Julianna Smoot
Ari Fleischer’s Roll Out Begins [Tiger]
As Augusta approaches … AP: Tiger Woods ESPN Interview To Air Sunday Night UPDATE: Fleischer no longer working with Woods (h/t Jennifer Moire)
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Christina Bellantoni found a competent hill staffer, Rick Klein thinks filling out his Census form is cool, Genna Gent joined the American Beverage Association, why is Patrick Ruffini purging his Facebook friend list?, Erick Erickson joined CNN, nothing says class like not wearing pants, Snoop Dogg started his internship at …
Metro’s Chronic Escalator Outages
Metro’s chronic escalator outages — including 68 as of this week — has riders up in arms. For anyone familiar with the DC Metro escalators, this comes as no surprise. Matter of fact, we’d be surprised if the damn things worked. According to data from Metro, the problem appears to …
Top 10 Reasons Why We’re Not Doing a #FDC Twitter Bracket Challenge
1. Gagnon dropped the ball on organizing. As outgoing champ, it was his job. We just forgot to tell him. 2. We came in an inch of our lives last year because some folks didn’t like the results. 3. We think people should spend more time with their families instead …
Closing Bell: NRCC Video Guy Keeps It Real
We’ve got to give it up to the NRCC once again — they’re straight killing it with the videos. There’s a lot of quick humor throughout the entire video [:47, 1:05]
Famously Quoteworthy: A Dose of Benadryl
DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz had the line of the day when commenting about the DSCC’s new video, “GOP Says No to Jobs.” “It may be springtime, but Republicans seem allergic to job creation.” That may be true, but the DSCC is not alergic to iStock actors. They used every one …
Foursquare Thrives, Probation Officers Rejoice
We do not consider ourselves early adopters. We just got a fax machine, recently started yelling “Kelly Clarkson!” during waxings, and just caught on to that new song sweeping the nation, the Macarena. But when we found out about a new social network mapping technology, we were intrigued…for about two …