The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal’s “Best of the Web” at WSJ written by the editor, James Taranto.

Out on a Limb

  • “Dallas Mayor: ‘It May Get Worse Before It Gets Better’ ”—headline, WeeklyStandard, Oct. 15
  • “The Polls Might Be Skewed Against Democrats—or Republicans”—headline, FiveThirtyEight .com, Oct. 15

Bottom Story of The Day
“Bachmann: ‘No Plan to Run for President’ ”—headline, TheHill.com, Oct. 15

It’s Been Real
Things are going from bad to worse for the Woman who Launched a Thousand Limericks, Roll Call reports:

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has gone dark in Kentucky, where the party is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

After a significant investment in support of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the DSCC had not reserved time for the final three weeks of the race and, as of today, is no longer on the air.

“The DSCC has now spent more than 2 million in Kentucky and continues to make targeted investments in the ground game while monitoring the race for future investments, but is currently not on the air in the state,” a DSCC official told CQ Roll Call.

If the guys at the DSCC had any wit, they’d refuse to say if they ever supported Grimes in the first place.

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