PROFESSOR JACOBSON: “Democrats must be in trouble if The Daily Beast is running a headline White Supremacist Stampede . . . Nine white supremacist candidates? In the whole country? With its multi-hundred million dollar endowment, SPLC only could find nine candidates?”

Like the release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil, the fact that they’re playing these cards so very early in the election cycle does smack of desperation.

UPDATE: Stuart Rothenberg: Are Obama’s Polls Worse Than Meet the Eye? I’m guessing the White House thinks so, or they wouldn’t be acting so desperate.