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Super Atrocious News for Mitt Romney
Oh crap. This comes from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight today: Mr. Obama led in four separate polls of Virginia on Sunday, three of which represented improvement from the prior polls issued by the same polling firms. Virginia has moved out … Continue reading →
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Romney vs. Obama Among Latinos: A 52-Point Gap
How does Mitt Romney find a route to the presidency if he is losing Latino voters with a 52-point gap? Here’s news on the most recent Latino Decisions tracking poll: 87% of Latino voters say they are almost certain they … Continue reading →
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President Obama Needs to Win Just Two of Six Coin Tosses on Election Day
I just thought of something cool. President Obama is highly likely to win the election because he basically just has to win the equivalent of two out of six coin tosses. The odds against that not happening are pretty low. What are … Continue reading →
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Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana?
Mittens doesn’t.
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Romnesia
President Obama on a roll. __________ I hope he uses the phrase on Monday night.
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Telling the Truth
The big picture. __________ GM is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead. That’s also true.
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A Pretty Darn Effective Ad
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Mitt Romney’s Chief Economic Advisor Is The Guy In “Inside Job” Who Praised Credit Derivatives
Unbelievable. Looking at the New York Times today, I saw a picture of Glenn Hubbard, Mitt Romney’s in-house economic adviser, and thought, He looks like the same guy from the documentary, Inside Job. In the documentary, there is an owlish and … Continue reading →
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Mitt Romney Rewrites The Pledge Of Allegiance
One nation, under 47%, divisible. __________ This is what it looks like to be on the same team. __________ And this man also sought to preserve the Union.
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Mitt Romney Doesn’t Worry about 47% of Americans
Amazing. 47% of Americans–the elderly, the retired, the unemployed, those in veteran’s hospitals, students, the mentally and physically disabled, and the working poor paying payroll taxes but making less than twenty thousand dollars a year–are those people. “My job is … Continue reading →
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I Love Obama Too
__________ Scott Van Duzer, small business owner of Big Apple Pizza in Florida, bear hugs the big O. Image found here.
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Mitt Romney Hearts Pat Robertson Who Hearts Wife-Beaters
Mitt Romney campaigned with Pat Robertson this week. Yes, this Pat Robertson. __________ And here’s Romney in full demagogue mode with Pat Robertson roused into ovation behind him. __________ Will Mitt Romney tell us why he campaigns with an advocate of wife-beating?
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Will Mitt Romney Return Gay Soldiers To The Closet If He Becomes President?
President Obama famously put an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), but can we be sure that it will remain a thing of the past if Mitt Romney becomes president? Nope. This is at the Daily Beast: Aubrey Sarvis, … Continue reading →
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So Good It Hurts
Michael Tomasky on Bill Clinton’s Democratic Convention speech: Holy smokes. That was the best political speech more or less ever. There wasn’t a thing he didn’t touch on, and there wasn’t a thing he didn’t just blast out of the … Continue reading →
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Sandra Fluke: “When a young woman has been verbally attacked,” President Obama “thinks of his daughters, not his delegates or his donors.”
Sandra Fluke made a powerful observation at the Democratic Convention yesterday: Our president, when he hears a young woman has been verbally attacked, thinks of his daughters — not his delegates or his donors — and stands with all women. … Continue reading →
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Bill Clinton’s 2012 Democratic Convention Speech
Phenomenal speech. Maybe the best that Bill Clinton has ever delivered.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: Back to the Closet and Coat Hanger
I think this ad fairly captures what a Romney-Ryan victory means for gay people and women. __________ The Supreme Court is in the balance. Are you registered to vote?
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Can Mitt Romney Win the Presidency Without Carrying Florida And Ohio?
Probably not. And the Los Angeles Times says this about a poll that has him behind pretty dramatically in both: Obama leads Romney among likely voters 51%-45% in Florida and 50%-44% in Ohio, according to the poll by Quinnipiac University, the New York Times and CBS News. The poll … Continue reading →
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An Effective New Romney Tax Returns Ad
__________ Drip, drip, drip. Why doesn’t he just release a decade or so of his tax returns, and be done with it?
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Women’s Equality: President Obama Makes a Good Point
Quoting President Obama on the campaign trail, this is in the Los Angeles Times today: You know, today’s the three-year anniversary of Sonia Sotomayor taking her seat on the Supreme Court. Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of Elena Kagan taking her seat on the … Continue reading →
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