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Starting to entertain the possibility this lady went out on a woodland hike one day and her brain got hijacked by some sort of psychic bog goblin. 🫥


Jackson said he, Bellows, Shah and Wood were invited. "Nobody should be shut out of a U.S. Senate debate because of an arbitrary threshold based on the results of an entirely different race," he said, advocating for Kleban, Loud, Costello and Dickerson to be on stage as well


Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite… I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham. He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross). So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment): nytimes.com/2015/06/20/us/…









Maps for the ME leg ratings. Dems have a chance at a few House seats in northernmost ME w/ good candidates like Danny Martin and David McCrea, though not favored. Neverthless, they have enough favorable seats in southern ME to maintain the majority in both chambers #MEpolitics












