What’s going on with Marco Rubio?
He’s got credit card problems, don’t you know.
Buying Amber Stoner’s travel
Could make his campaign unravel,
Sending his Senatorial dreams down the tubio.

Listen, I’m going to get into a black Suburban and I’m going to drive back to the governor’s residence, go upstairs and order a pizza. I’m going to turn on a baseball game. You all can call me when you decide to reopen the government.

— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by the Camden Courier Post, recounting what he told legislators when they threatened a government shutdown.

In year-to-year comparisons, the GOP’s Fox channel lost 21 percent of its overall viewership as well as over a quarter of younger viewers versus the same period last year.
A more remote possibility is that millions of Fox viewers — the average of whom is 65 — have simply died off.
According to TV Newser:
[The] network [...]

2

Number of pages in a smaller “pocket card” version of the Republican Party’s “Pledge to America,” created after complaints from some Tea Party activists about the original 45-page document, according to the Wall Street Journal.

empty calories Refers to broadcast programming that draws great ratings but is so controversial or outrageous that advertisers avoid it. Usage: From Being Glenn Beck in the New York Times: “…As of Sept. 21, 296 advertisers have asked that their commercials not be shown on Beck’s show (up from 26 in August 2009). Fox also has a difficult time selling ads on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ and ‘Fox and Friends’ when Beck appears on those shows as a guest. Beck’s show is known in the TV sales world as ‘empty calories,’ meaning he draws great ratings but is toxic for ad sales.”

296

Number of advertisers who have boycotted Glenn Beck’s show on Fox since Sept. 28, 2009 — the day he accused Pres. Obama of having “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” and said, “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.”

The new CNN poll finds leads for Democrats in the California races for governor and senator.
In the governor’s race, Democrat Jerry Brown, the state’s attorney general and former governor, leads billionaire former eBay executive Meg Whitman, 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. Brown has a 13 point advantage among registered voters, 52 percent [...]

We don’t spend much time thinking about her. I think that long term, the more sway and power she has in the Republican Party, the worse off the Republican Party will be.

— Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, in a CNN interview, about a possible presidential bid by Sarah Palin.

71 percent

Share of Republicans who “described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea-party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections” in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The survey also found that tea-party supporters “make up one-third of the voters most likely to cast ballots in November’s midterm elections.“

Yeah, big shock. I know.
In August, the RNC abruptly canceled a fundraiser in Beverly Hills that was to be headlined — not by GOP top-draw candidates like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina — but by one of the new lead GOP race-baiters, Andrew Breitbart.
reitbart was all over the news at the time because his [...]