Crazy news week actually off to a slow start thanks to SCOTUS anticlimax. But don’t worry; it’ll pick up directly.
Here are some mid-day news/views snacks:
* Third consecutive poll shows Markey with double-digit lead over Gomez as Massachusetts voters prepare to head to the polls tomorrow to select successor to John Kerry.
* Rasmussen finds Marco Rubio’s favorability number among Republicans dropping 15% since February. HRC’s much-discussed favorability erosion not in her own party.
* First Democracy Corps survey of 2014 House landscape finds Republicans in weaker position than is normally assumed.
* TAP’s Abby Rapoport thinks opponents of radical abortion legislation in Texas may be able to delay bill in Senate long enough for special session clock to run out.
* The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi has a typically insightful take on the amnesia surrounding the Paula Deen incident.
And in sorta non-political news:
* TNR’s Alec MacGillis raps WaPo for its latest slam at Baltimore, this time over rat control. I’m with Alec, having lived in two different Capitol Hill homes besieged by rats.
Back in a bit.
