Make sure to sign up to get "Afternoon Fix" in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m.! EARLIER ON THE FIX Daily Fix Poll: Will Jan Brewer's debate performance be a game-changer? Haley Barbour sits atop GOP RGA drops $2 million on ads in Florida WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * President Obama will visit Philadelphia on Sep. 20 to campaign for Rep. Joe Sestak's (D-Pa.) Senate bid against former Rep. Pat Toomey (R). * Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) raised $524,000 in August, while former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO Charlie Baker (R) raised $253,000 and state Treasurer Tim Cahill (I) raised $22,000. Meanwhile, Baker is up with a new TV ad charging that Patrick and Cahill "raised taxes eight times." * A new Survey USA poll shows former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (R) statistically tied with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), 48 percent to 46 percent.


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This week's Vanity Fair article had even liberals defending Sarah Palin, saying Michael Joseph Gross wrote a sexist hatchet-job. The former Alaska governor weighed in herself:


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UPDATE 9/3/10: Jan Brewer says she won't be participating in any more debates. The Arizona Daily Star reports: Incumbent Republican Jan Brewer said Thursday she has no intention of participating in any more events with Democrat Terry Goddard. She said the only reason she debated him on Wednesday is she had to to qualify for more than $1.7 million in public funds for her campaign. I don't believe that things come out in proper context in an adversarial atmosphere," she said. And Brewer said she is available for interviews. Meanwhile, Brewer has recanted the beheadings claim that she avoided commenting on after the debate. (The governor had said on local television that "our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert ... that have been beheaded.") "That was an error, if I said that," she told reporters Friday. Brewer said she was referring to beheadings in Mexico that could


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Your Browser DoesNot Support IFrames. By Felicia Sonmez Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) turned in one of the most bizarre performances we've seen in recent years during Wednesday night's debate with state Attorney General Terry Goddard (D). The question for Brewer going forward is, will her debate stumble cost her in the fall? Ever since she signed Arizona's immigration law in April, Brewer has seen her popularity skyrocket. Her opponents in the Republican primary dropped out one-by-one, leaving Brewer to cruise to the nomination and, it seemed, to election in November. With all signs pointing to a Brewer blowout, the Fix moved the race from Toss Up to Lean Republican in July. But sometimes, gaffes can damage -- and even sink -- the strongest of candidacies. Brewer has taken on a higher profile thanks to her role in the Arizona immigration debate, and her rise in the national eye has


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Billionaire Meg Whitman from California Working Families on Vimeo. This toe-tapper from California Working Families features a series of Meg Whitman glamour shots, branding California Republican gubernatorial candidate as a high-flying big spender. But the video, without the on-screen text and musical score, could easily pass as a pro-Whitman ad. The ad is set to Travie Mccoy's "Billionaire," in which he sings, "I want to be a billionaire so frickin' bad." It then goes on, using on-screen text, to claim Whitman has spent $150 million on her campaign, hiked spending at eBay -- where she served as CEO -- by 2000 percent and raised customer fees six times in six years. The group is a combination of different labor organizations, predominantly labor, and counts the Democratic Governors association among its membership. Update (3:10 p.m.): The non-partisan FactCheck.org analyzed a similar ad from California Working Families, calling the claim that Whitman


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