Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* If you haven’t seen it, Mitt Romney has a new web video<\/a> in which he pretends to chat with his family about whether to run for president. It culminates with one of his sons concluding, “I don’t think you have a choice. I think you have to run.” As Christopher Orr added, “Remarkably, in all the weighing of pros and cons, none of Romney’s kids points out, ‘But Dad, you’re a pro-choice, pro-gay moderate who’ll have to lie through his teeth to appeal to conservative voters.'”<\/p>\n * Rudy Giuliani’s record of exaggerations continues. In the latest example, his campaign is exaggerating its list of “new” endorsements by including endorsements that have already been rolled out<\/a>.<\/p>\n * This may be more of a local story, but I like to think it might speak to a larger trend: Chris Koster, the Republican front-runner in Missouri’s upcoming Attorney General race, has switched parties<\/a> and is now a Dem. “My vision for the state is not a far-right vision,” Koster told The Kansas City Star. “I am a hindrance to them, and they are to me. It seemed like a good time for a separation.”<\/p>\n