Category: 2012 Election
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North Carolina Still Very Close, And That’s Bad News For Romney
One week ago, I noted that the race in North Carolina remained very close despite the fact that many people, including myself, had begun to assume the state would be quickly returning to the GOP fold. With the Democratic Convention behind us, a new Public Policy Polling poll shows that the race hasn’t changed much at…
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Mitt Romney’s Ridiculous “God” Attack On Obama And The Democrats
Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.
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Dumb Question
I noticed the following headline at Memeoradum this morning: Who is Dumber, Joe Biden or Barack Obama? The link was to Powerline, and I was curious as to the basis for the query. I expected something more than what I found. The example for Biden: one of Biden’s most famous moments of stupidity, when Biden…
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Obama Beats Romney In August Fundraising, By A Nose
President Obama and the DNC broker a months-long streak by beating Mitt Romney and the RNC in the fundraising race, but only just barely: BOSTON – For the first time since April, Chicago has outraised Boston, with the Obama campaign and the DNC pulling in more than $114 million in the month of August, while Romney and…
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Romney And Ryan Not Providing Details About Their Tax Plan
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are refusing to provide significant details about their tax plan. That’s a mistake.
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The Democratic Party Joins The GOP In Abandoning Civil Liberties
Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”
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Obama’s Convention Bounce Becoming More Apparent
If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.
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Political Conventions Prove Their Own Uselessness
The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.
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George Takei Wonders What Happened To The Republicans Who Are Against Big Government
Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.
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Mitt Romney’s Bizarre Explanation For Why He Didn’t Mention Afghanistan At The GOP Convention
During their recently concluded convention, several Democrats, including most prominently Vice President Biden and Senator John Kerry, criticized Mitt Romney for failing to say a single word about Afghanistan or America’s troops during his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in Tampa. These were rather ironic moments to me because, usually, it’s the Republicans who…
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Obama Hanging Congressional Democrats Out To Dry?
The Obama campaign is telling Congressional and Senate Democrats not to expect any money this election cycle: President Barack Obama has a bleak message for House and Senate Democrats this year when it comes to campaign cash: You’re on your own. Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have privately…
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Ann Romney’s Opinions About Birth Control Are Irrelevant To This Election
Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.
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Mitt Romney’s Path To Victory: Incredibly Narrow, And Perhaps Impossible To Navigate
As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.
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Clint Eastwood Explains His Bizarre RNC Appearance
Clint Eastwood apparently considers his stunt at the Republican National Convention to be a success: Clint Eastwood revealed that what he termed a “very unorthodox” speech involving an empty chair at the Republican National Convention was a last-minute, impromptu decision. Eastwood told his hometown newspaper, The Carmel Pine Cone, on Tuesday in an interview that was…
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Apparently, Even Sarah Palin Doesn’t Think She’s Very Important
During his speech last night, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who many think may be on the short list to replace Hillary Clinton at the State Department in a second Obama term, spent much of his time ridiculing the foreign policy inexperience of the Romney/Ryan ticket. Perhaps his best line, at least judging from the crowd…
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August Jobs Report Shows Continued Weakening Of Labor Market
Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.
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In Closing Speech, Obama Does What He Needed To Do
President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.
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God And The GOP Platform
David Noon reviewed Republican Party platforms going all the way back to the GOP’s founding in 1856, and came up with this graph: One wonders how the Republican Party survived for so long with so few reference to God or other related deities. Andrew Sullivan comments: That’s also a superb graph revealing just how new…
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Maryland Republican: Student Loans Could Lead To The Holocaust, Or Something
Ten term Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland had an interesting response to a constituents question at a recent appearance: “I want to know how you feel about the government issuing student loans. Is that something that you’re for?” asked an audience member who identified herself as an instructor at the college. “I’m for student…
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Clinton v. Romney-Ryan
Daniel Larison writing at The American Conservative: Romney-Ryan was supposed to be the presidential ticket of the “data-driven” manager and his budget wonk sidekick, and between the absence of any significant policy discussion last week and what happened tonight that has lost all credibility. Clinton outperformed both of them in terms of discussing policy details,…
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Romney Forces And Allies Appear To Be Pulling Out Of Michigan And Pennsylvania
Despite the hopes of some that they would be in play this year, it would appear that Republican SuperPACs, and the Romney campaign, are already beginning to write off Michigan and Pennsylvania: Mitt Romney’s conservative allies are bypassing Michigan with their advertising while stepping up efforts in other battleground states — suggesting campaign strategists don’t…
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Wait A Minute, The Republican Platform Doesn’t Recognize Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital?
Another platform controversy?
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Hacker Group Claims That It Stole Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns
In an anonymous message claiming to be from a group of hackers, someone is claiming to have stolen copies of Mitt Romney’s tax returns from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and is threatening to release them unless a ransom is paid: Someone claims to have stolen years of Mitt Romney’s tax returns from a Tennessee office of the financial…
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When Compromise Is Impossible
The President Obama lost his cool with Speaker Boehner on debt negotiations is not nearly as important as the underlying reason a deal couldn’t be reached.
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Politico: Obama Levels More Personal Attacks Than Romney
A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”
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Democratic Platform Amended On God And Jerusalem Amid Boos From Delegates
What should have been a simple parliamentary procedure, conducted under President Obama’s orders no less, turned into something of an embarrassment.
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Democrats To Reinstate Platform Language On Jerusalem As Capital Of Israel
One of the changes to the Democratic Party Platform that has aroused the most controversy is the removal of several provisions that had been in previous platforms recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Less than 24 hours after the platform was approved by the delegates, the language about Jerusalem is being reinstated: NBC News has learned…
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Ratings For Day One Of Democratic Convention Not Much Better Then Republican Convention
The initial ratings for the the first night of the Democratic National Convention don’t appear to be much better than the first night of last week’s Republican Convention: MSNBC was the #1 cable news channel last night in primetime. We’re checking records, but it may be the first time in the network’s 16 years of…
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A Bipolar Night At The Democratic Convention
Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.
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About Those 4.5 Million New Jobs, Mr. President
The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.
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A Close Election That’s Not Close
It’s Obama’s race to lose, not a coin toss.
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Signs and Portents
Ok, so the American Political Science Association had to cancel its annual meeting, and now President Obama has to move his speech indoors, but the RNC only had to lose a day (and its least important one) to Isaac? Well, I guess God is a Republican after all… (Seriously: who thought it was a good…
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Obama’s Acceptance Speech Moved Indoors, Citing Weather Concerns
The Democratic National Convention organizers announced this morning that President Obama’s speech on Thursday night, as well as the other scheduled speeches by others such as Vice-President Biden, has been moved inside due to concerns about the weather: (CBS News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats are significantly downsizing the final night of their national convention, moving…
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From the Department of Wishful Thinking
Quoting an AP interview with President Obama(with a broken link), TPM provides the following: He said two changes — the facts that “the American people will have voted,” and that Republicans will no longer need to be focused on beating him — could lead to better conditions for deal-making. If Republicans are willing, Obama said,…
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Contemplating the “Four Years” Question
If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.
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God “Removed” From Democratic Party Platform
Apparently, this is today’s outrage of the day among some segments of the right: Guess what? God’s name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform. This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform: “We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone…
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National Debt To Hit $16,000,000,000,000 During Democratic Convention
The Republicans had to deal with Hurricane Isaac. The Democrats have to deal with the National Debt hitting another inauspicious milestone: Bad timing for Democrats: The gross national debt is set to hit $16 trillion Tuesday as the party’s convention gets underway, and Republicans are pouncing. “This is a grim landmark for the United States,”…
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Americans Do Not Believe They Are Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago
Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.
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Report: Romney/RNC Raised $100 Million In August
It looks like the GOP had another successful fundraising month: Mitt Romney raised $100 million in August, his campaign told bundlers last week in Tampa. Romney campaign finance director Spencer Zwick revealed the tally during an event with top fundraisers on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention, according to a source who was present.…
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Is The GOP Suckering Fiscal Conservatives All Over Again?
Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?
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No Convention Bounce For Romney In Florida
The first post-convention poll out of Florida doesn’t indicate any real benefits for Mitt Romney in Sunshine State: PPP’s newest Florida poll, conducted completely after the Republican convention, finds no change in the Presidential race there. Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 48-47, exactly as he did on our last poll of the state five weeks…