David Axelrod: “This is fundamentally the flaw. Polling is only as good as the model that is created to predict.”

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.