MICKEY KAUS: Dem-a-Geddon? “Democrats discover strange new virtues in Rasmussen’s previously-maligned robo-polls, which currently show GOPs with a smaller advantage than other polls.”

A NEW BILL WHITTLE VIDEO. Need I say more?

And check out his new site at DeclarationEntertainment.com.

IN THE MAIL: A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him.

WANT TO HELP MICHAEL YON AND SOLDIERS’ ANGELS OUT? Pre-order his book.

POLL: Conservative Bloggers on 2012. The big news is that Huckabee absolutely bombed.

REASON TV: 3 Reasons Obama’s Education Vision Deserves an F .

THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS WAS WRONG: Overestimate fueled state’s landmark diesel law. “California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used to toughen the state’s clean-air standards, and scientists have spent the past several months revising data and planning a significant weakening of the landmark regulation, The Chronicle has found. The pollution estimate in question was too high – by 340 percent, according to the California Air Resources Board, the state agency charged with researching and adopting air quality standards. . . . Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, offered no explanation when The Chronicle questioned her about the diesel emissions miscalculation. She was recently asked why the air board estimate of a nitrous oxide source was off by at least a factor of two – air board scientists have since revised their numbers, and data show the estimate was off by 340 percent. Nichols’ response: ‘I can’t answer that for you.'”

The Air Board has had problems for a while. They haven’t gotten much press, though.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Taxes And Presidential Math.

AN EARLY INDICATOR of a deflating higher education bubble? Law Schools Kill Night Programs. Possibly.

AN EMBARRASSING NEW YORK TIMES CORRECTION, making clear that they never understood what an S Corporation was. “Pathetic. Nearly every day, the Times‘s editors and reporters lecture the rest of us on tax policy, but for the most part, they have no idea what they are talking about. If you are looking for ignorance, the New York Times is your newspaper.”

Reader Cameron Moore adds: “It must be one of those obscure concepts like ‘rule of law’…”

DIRTY TRICKS: Democrats: Adler campaign backed Tea Party candidate.

Congressman John Adler’s campaign and the Camden County Democratic Committee recruited “”NJ Tea Party” candidate Peter DeStefano to confuse conservative voters and hurt Adler’s Republican challenger this fall, Democratic operatives say.

“The goal was to take 5 percent of (Republican Jon) Runyan’s vote,” said a Democrat with direct knowledge of the Adler campaign and CCDC operations.

More here. (Via the estimable Prof. Jacobson.)

JEFF CARTER: This Stock Market Rally Has Everything To Do With The Turn Against Obama. But see this earlier post.

GOOD QUESTION: If 2010 is an “anti-incumbent” election, how can it be that 80 percent of the incumbents will be re-elected? Though based on the last several decades, an election where only 80 percent of incumbents survive is actually a big deal.

GEE, GO FIGURE: Whitman Campaign Upset Over “Whore” Remark From Brown Aide.

READER KENNETH STRUMPF REMINDS US that in October of 2006 — just before the Democrats took Congress — unemployment was 4.4%. That’s considerably less than half the current number.

A ONE-DAY-ONLY SALE ON the Panasonic Arc IV Nanotech Vortex Shaver. Nanotech and a vortex! How will I resist?

POLL: Nearly One in Four Democrats Believe GOP Will Win Control of the Senate. Plus this: “56 percent of likely voters support the Tea Party movement.”

KLAVAN ON THE CULTURE’S GUIDE TO THE ELECTIONS: Part Two: WAR!

UNEXPECTEDLY! Economy Sheds 95,000 Jobs; Rate at 9.6% as Easing Looms. “The U.S. economy unexpectedly shed jobs in September for a fourth straight month as government payrolls fell and private hiring was less than expected, hardening expectations of further Federal Reserve action to spur the recovery. . . . Analysts polled by Reuters had expected overall payrolls would be unchanged, with private-sector hiring gaining 75,000. The government revised data for July and August to show 15,000 more jobs lost than previously reported. It also said its preliminary benchmark revision estimate indicated employment in the 12 months to March had been overstated by 366,000.”

The reason this stuff is “unexpected” is that not enough people are reading Federalist No. 62.

MOTHER JONES: GoolsbeeGate?