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Silver’s popular vote forecast remains a statistical tie.

UPDATE: Over on Twitter, #YouPeople is exploding.

Michelle Obama warns that that this election “will be even closer than the last one” and that the tipping point could be in the hands of “just a few thousand people in one state.”

American Bridge 21st Century and Courage Campaign Super PAC have launched an anti-Romney campaign modeled on Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project. Clip description: Julie Goodridge was a lead plaintiff in Goodridge v. Dept of Public Health — the lawsuit that brought same-sex marriage to Massachusetts. In this video, Goodridge shares her family’s encounters with Gov. Mitt Romney, including a …

The Senate GOP has once again blocked the Disclose Act, a bill which would not curtail unlimited campaign spending, but would at lease force the disclosure of who was donating all those millions. Huffington Post reports: The vote against the Disclose Act represented a remarkable turnaround for Republicans, who have long supported disclosure as an alternative to campaign donation limits. …

I’m loving this one.

John McCain got rather pissy yesterday when reporters asked if he’d passed over Mitt Romney as a 2008 running mate due to his still unreleased tax returns. “Oh come on, because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate. Why did we not take [Tim] Pawlenty, why did we not take any of the other 10 other people. Why …

Former Bush White House chief of staff and current Romney field man John Sununu created a firestorm today when he told reporters, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” Sununu later tried to walk the comment back, but the quote was already exploding on Twitter. The Obama campaign immediately fired back: “The Romney campaign has officially …

Minnesota’s state Republican Party has launched a petition drive demanding that the wording of the state’s anti-gay marriage referendum be returned to the language agreed upon by the GOP-dominated legislature. That bill was vetoed by the governor and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie contends that version is therefore invalid. Ritchie’s title for the ballot measure is more gay-friendly in that …

The offer only came yesterday and already the clip has more than 160,000 views, thanks in no small part by cries of outrage from wingnut sites and attention from the Times Of Israel. (Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson is a rabid hawk for Israel and has donated $100M to the Birthright Israel fund, which pays for Jewish youth groups to visit …

UPDATE: The Obama campaign said today that the president will NOT appear at the Saddleback event. Pastor Rick Warren, whose 2008 inauguration invocation for President Obama caused great anger among progressives, will next month host a forum with the president and Mitt Romney. The forum would be similar to one he hosted four years ago with Obama and then-GOP presidential …

UPDATE: The Romney campaign is pissed. Every day, President Obama hits a new low. It is sad and shameful that President Obama would mock America The Beautiful. But sadly it’s not surprising for the man who launched his presidency with an apology tour. The ‘Uncle Jims’ of our country – as he condescendingly calls middle-class Americans – don’t believe in …

“I’m as black as Obama, and I’m tired of any legitimate criticism of the President’s policies reduced to lazy and ludicrous charges of racism. Obama and the Democrats have been promising a whole lot of hope and change but, instead, have delivered higher unemployment, higher poverty rates and millions more welfare enrollees while aggressively promoting abortion in the black community.” …

Source.

Just posted to the Obama campaign’s YouTube channel.