Biden Says GOP Strong Enough to Win

Absolutely, it’s strong enough to beat both of us. No matter what the circumstance, at the end of the day, the American people right now, many of them are in trouble, an even larger percentage have stagnant wages and a significant majority of the American people believe the country’s not moving in the right direction. That is never a good place to be going into a re-election.

— Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with David Gregory, on whether the Republican party is strong enough to win in 2012.

Huntsman: Palin Never Intended to Run

There’s too much drama and theater in politics. I mean come on. You string people along. Everybody who has anything to do with politics knew she wasn’t going to get in the race. She has a profit proposition, she’s got a business. She makes money doing what she’s doing.

— Jon Huntsman, in an interview on The View, criticizing Sarah Palin for waiting so long to announce that she would not run for president.

Art Pope: In 2010, A Koch Bros’ Mini-Me Bought the Legislature of the 10th Largest State for $2.2 Mil

Art Pope, the right-wing extremist, multimillionaire owner of low-end retail outlets, Roses and Maxway stores, in eastern North Carolina, spent $2.2 million on local legislative races in 2010 and flipped the N.C. Legislature from blue to red for the first since 1870.

Jane Mayer profiles him in the New Yorker:

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