Spanish-language Telemundo network announced Thursday it will host its first presidential primary debate in December. The Republican primary debate will be held in Las Vegas and comes weeks before the early primaries begin. The locale is key, as Nevada is one of two early primary states with a growing number of Latino voters. Florida is…
Category: Election 2012
RIP, American Jobs Act
President Obama’s jobs bill, as written, died a predictable death in the Senate last night. Democrats were able to muster fifty-one votes for passage, but that’s well short of the sixty needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. The New York Times called the vote both a “major” and “significant” setback for Obama in this morning’s…
Poll: Herman Cain Leads Mitt Romney By 8 Points
Herman Cain appears to be the latest Tea Party sensation. A new poll from Public Policy Polling has the one-time Godfather’s Pizza CEO leading Mitt Romney by eight percentage points, 30 percent to 22 percent. Those are the exact same percentages the very same polling outfit reported yesterday for Cain and Romney in Iowa where…
Obama’s Failing E-mails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?
Here’s the thing I’m starting to think Obama never understood: yes, for most of us the 2008 campaign was partly about him, but it was more about the campaign itself—about the sudden feeling of power that gripped a web-enabled populace, who felt themselves able to really, truly hope. Hope that maybe they’d found a candidate…
Republican Presidential Debate Turns Into Strange Faculty Lounge
Charlie Rose’s famous oak table ended up looking like the faculty lounge of the world’s strangest economics department. On speed. Rick Santorum wants to “beat” China. Mitt Romney warns that “if you don’t stand up to China, you will be run over by China.” Herman Cain denies that the criticism of his “9-9-9” plan’s arithmetic…
Debate In 100 Seconds: Repeal Everything!
The Republican presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire to come up with bold solutions for solving the American economy. What did they come up with? Repeal Everything! Oh, and jail Barney Frank. via Debate In 100 Seconds: Repeal Everything! | Election 2012.
How Obama’s data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected
So far in the presidential election of 2012, there is only one campaign that is doing cutting-edge work with data. Obama may be struggling in the polls and even losing support among his core boosters, but when it comes to the modern mechanics of identifying, connecting with and mobilizing voters, as well as…
Talking Points 2012 – The Stimulus
“The argument that the stimulus had zero impact and we shouldn’t have done it is intellectually dishonest or wrong,” he says. “If you throw a trillion dollars at the economy, it has an impact. I would have preferred to do it differently, but they needed to do something.” via Could this time have been different?…
Ingraham Suggests Cain Would Be The Real First Black President Because Obama Has White Relatives
Right-wing radio host and Fox contributor Laura Ingraham makes a living from race-baiting when it comes to the president. Like many of her conservative cohorts, Ingraham often insists that much of Obama’s success is solely derived from the fact that he is African-American. Yesterday on her radio show, Ingraham offered Obama’s rise to…
Harry Reid Busts Up Senate Precedent
McConnell moved to suspend the rules and shift debate over to the American Jobs Act. Reid argued that doing so amounted to another filibuster, because it required 60 votes to move back to the original bill, and so therefore was out of order. Sen. Mark Begich D-Alaska, who happened to be the presiding…
President Obama’s Press Conference – October 6, 2011
This is not a game; this is not the time for the usual political gridlock. The problems Europe is having today could have a very real effect on our economy at a time when it’s already fragile. But this jobs bill can help guard against another downturn if the situation in Europe gets any worse….
96-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Denied Voter ID Because She Didn’t Have Her Marriage License
Swept up in the craze of preventing widespread voter fraud that doesn’t actually exist, Tennessee Republicans passed a voter identification law this year that they claimed would put an end to fraud and ensure fair elections. Like similar laws in other states, Tennessee’s version has come under scrutiny from voting rights advocates, civil…
Obama Denounces New GOP Voting Laws, Says the Justice Department Is Investigating
In an interview with Philadelphia radio host Michael Smerconish last week, President Obama for the first time denounced the wave of new laws passed by Republicans designed to restrict the right to vote for millions of Americans. Said the president: I will say that my big priority is making sure that as many people are…
AP: Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin Wins WV-GOV Special Election
Democrats have held on in the Republican-trending rural state of West Virginia, with Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin winning Tuesday’s special election. With 81% of precincts reporting, Tomblin leads Republican businessman Bill Maloney at 49%-47%, and Tomblin has been projected as the winner by the Associated Press. via AP: Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin Wins…
11 of 12 Pennsylvania GOP Members of Congress Rebel Against Gov. Corbett’s Election Rigging Plan
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) proposed rigging the 2012 presidential election for the Republican candidate by effectively giving away as many as a dozen of the blue state’s electoral votes to that candidate. Under Corbett’s scheme, each of the state’s 18 congressional districts will allocate one electoral vote during the…
Business Owners, Investors Say Tax Changes Make ‘Zero Difference’ In Hiring: ‘I’m Not Sure What The Connection Is’
But a surprising group of people find that to be entirely untrue: the “job creators” themselves. As the billionaire behind the Buffett Rule, Warren Buffett, explained, “I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77…
Mitt Romney’s ‘Buffett Rule’ Problem: His Tax Rate Is 14 Percent
When President Obama released his plan to implement the “Buffett rule” — which would ensure that millionaires can’t pay a lower tax rate than middle-class families — 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney derided it as “class warfare,” saying it is “simply the wrong way to go.” But as Time’s Michael Scherer pointed…
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Cain and the GOP Can’t De-Brainwash Blacks
But they can do that and know that they’ll get a listen from Obama and the Democrats. Blacks know that the same can’t be said of the GOP. The GOP’s long, blatant, and infuriating history of racial exclusion, neglect and race baiting, and polarization has insured that the door remains tightly slammed to any kind…
Announcing the 2012 Inside Facebook Election Tracker
As we round the corner on election season, we at Inside Network are excited to announce the launch of the 2012 Election Tracker monitoring fan growth and marketing reach on Facebook for electoral campaigns. Inside Facebook’s 2012 Election Tracker will begin by tracking Facebook activity for presidential primary candidates and current elected officials,…
Ron Pauls Charity: Libertarian Views Fail Reality Test
In Pauls opinion, high taxes and inflation deprive Americans of money that they would otherwise give to charity. Programs like Medicare, he says, brought about the demise of “voluntary charities and organizations, such as friendly societies, that devoted themselves to helping those in need” during the early 20th century. These civic groups, he claims, “flourished…