Obama’s Campaign Vows To Be On Arizona Ballot Despite Threats

TPM LIVEWIRE 8:40 PM EDT, Friday May 18, 2012 Barack Obama’s campaign vowed late Friday that he would be on Arizona’s ballot in November despite threats from the state’s top election official that the president might be blocked over a conspiracy theory about where he was born. The campaign was responding to comments made by [...]

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A Baseless Bain Comparison

The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen – Tue May 15, 2012 8:00 AM EDT Mitt Romney’s background at Bain Capital, the only experience the Republican presidential hopeful considers relevant to his campaign, can be pretty ugly. Romney orchestrated leveraged buyouts, flipping companies quickly for large profits, at the expense of thousands of workers who were [...]

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Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

The Daily Beast Andrew Sullivan 12 May 2012 01:03 PM [Re-posted from last night.] Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It’s on the fast-shifting poll data on [...]

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Has Team Romney Forgotten That The Bush Years Were Terrible?

TheWashingtonPost Posted by Ezra Klein at 09:09 AM ET, 05/01/2012 There’s not much in politics that allows me to say, “I’m old enough to remember when.” But here’s one: I’m old enough to remember when George W. Bush was president. It was, after all, only four short years ago. And it didn’t go so well. [...]

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Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem

The Washington Post By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Friday, April 27, 8:46 AM Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either [...]

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Has Mitt Romney met Mitt Romney?

The Maddow Blog By Steve Benen – Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:00 AM EDT As expected, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney cruised to easy wins in five GOP primaries yesterday — his remaining competitors aren’t really trying — and he capped the night with a big speech in New Hampshire, where he rolled out [...]

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The Morning Plum: Can Obama Turn Tables On Gas Prices?

Posted at  09:04 AM ET, 04/17/2012 The Washington Post By Greg Sargent Despite recent signs that gas prices may be about to fall, the Obama team harbors very real fears that pain at the pump could very well deprive him of credit for the recovery. It could impose additional financial hardships on swing voters who [...]

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Romney’s Well-Rehearsed Case Against Obama and the Russians

Time Swampland By Michael Crowley | @CrowleyTIME | March 27, 2012 For months now, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has overwhelmingly focused on the economy.  But as he geared up his candidacy a couple of years ago, Romney opened with an argument heavy on foreign policy. In March 2010, for instance, he published No Apology: The [...]

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Gas Prices: Obama Strikes Back At GOP Critics On Fuel Costs

By ANNE GEARAN  03/10/12 06:03 AM ET WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency. “I’m going to [...]

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GOP + Tea Party = Box Of Hammers

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