A Few More Posts for the Day...

1. Mitt - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? The president has been confronted with a series of issues recently that, were he running against someone other than the autobot known as Mitt Romney, would give his campaign apparatus pause.  However, he is running against Mitt, which means that he can rest just a bit easier and take solace in the fact that his opponent - who once held four positions on Libya in the course of six weeks - will in all likelihood screw this moment up. Charles Pierce gives us the gory details here.
2. In case you were wondering this is what voter suppression looks like.