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Rick Perry, corn dog champion ( Iowa Politics )   So Rick Perry caught a big break Tuesday: He took a shellacking from his own party’s establishment for accusing Ben Bernanke of treason and threatening to deliver a Texas-style beatdown should the Fed Chairman ever set foot in the state. Karl Rove and gang are leading the way in umbrage-taking, saying Perry’s comments were irresponsible and unpresidential.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Quinnipiac University (7/12-7/18, Registered Voters, May results in parentheses) Sherrod Brown (D) 49 (45) Josh Mandel (R) 34 (31) Sherrod Brown (D) 50 (44) Kevin Coughlin (R) 32 (28) A handful of voters have come off the fence in the Buckeye State, and the Democratic incumbent has held onto quite a few of them, according to the latest Q poll.

PPP: The Granite State is a legitimate toss-up in 2012 Public Policy Polling (6/30-7/5, New Hampshire Voters, April results in parentheses) Mitt Romney (R) 46 (46) Barack Obama (D) 44 (47) Barack Obama (D) 48 (–) Tim Pawlenty (R) 41 (–) Barack Obama (D) 49 (–) Michele Bachmann (R) 42 (–) Barack Obama (D) 49 (–) Herman Cain (R) 39 (–) Barack Obama (D) 53 (56) Sarah Palin (R) 38 (34) In 2008, New Hampshire’s four electoral votes were a comparably easy get for Barack Obama, as the Granite State went for the Democrat by nearly a 10-point margin.

Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, calls on supporters at Tea Party rally
to "fire" Barack Obama's Democrats from the Senate and House of
Representatives in mid-term elections.

The 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate electrifies the crowd at a
campaign fundraising event in Orange County.

A humble reminder, once more: if you are here with us in the the lovely (and toasty) metropolis of Las Vegas, you can catch me, Markos Moulitsas, Laura Clawson, Joan McCarter, and the entire Swing State Project crew tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 PM, as we lead a Q&A on the 2010 elections. For those on site, we will be getting after it in the Brasilia 6 meeting room. Having tossed out the obligatory plug, we can now press onward, to a pretty intriguing Thursday edition of the Wrap… THE U.S.

From my fourth-floor room at the Rio, I can see beautiful people frolicking in the glorious pool area in sparkling sunshine (albeit sunshine that is generating 109 degree heat). Me? I am ensconced in an easy chair. Typing a bunch of political news on a laptop. Never let it be said that I don’t love you people. With that bit of gratuitous whining out of the way, please enjoy the Wednesday edition of the Wrap, live from Las Vegas! THE U.S.

ATLANTA — Dueling endorsements from Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich could help decide a crowded Republican primary for Georgia governor Tuesday. Palin’s nod to former Secretary of State Karen Handel has helped her surge to the top of the polls in recent days, while ex-congressman Nathan Deal could benefit from the backing of Gingrich. The two served together in the U.S. House. On the Democratic side, one-term former Gov. Roy Barnes is facing the first electoral test in his comeback bid.

NORFOLK, Va. — Sarah Palin on Sunday painted President Barack Obama’s administration as a cowering giant intent on surrendering the nation’s mantle as a superpower and willing to sell out its allies. The former John McCain running mate addressed a paying audience of several hundred people in Norfolk and accused Obama of selling out ally Israel in over its naval blockade of Gaza and treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shabbily.

On Thursday, when the time came for independent counsel Timothy Petumenos to give former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin her comeuppance for putting private fund-raising above the public trust, he picked as the venue the “Adventure Room” of the Hotel Captain in Cook in downtown Anchorage. The symbolism was almost as thick as the media that crowded the smallish space in the basement of one of the city’s long time cornerstones. The hotel was built by Wally Hickel after the Good Friday earthquake in 1964 destroyed much of Alaska.