This last weekend, Paul Ryan repeatedly dodged questions about the mathematical impossibility of the tax plan he and Mitt Romney are running on, and then, having burned through seven repeated questions and two minutes of dodging, insisted he couldn’t answer because the math would take too long. Today Bloomberg News spoke to Ryan and promised…
Category: Election 2012
RERUN: Fox, Carlson, Drudge Attacked Obama’s Hampton Speech Five Years Ago
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, Matt Drudge, and Fox News’ Sean Hannity are all promoting a “bombshell video” of President Obama giving a speech on race issues in 2007 and are suggesting it could impact the presidential election. But Carlson, Drudge, and Fox News, among many other outlets, all reported on the same speech more than five years ago, and…
VIDEO: Foxs Juan Williams Calls Out Hannity For Throwing “Dirt” At Obama “To See What Will Stick”
Foxs Juan Williams Calls Out Hannity For Throwing “Dirt” At Obama “To See What Will Stick” | Video | Media Matters for America.
Early voting starts today, as do the rallies
After months of nonstop campaigning and TV commercials, the election of 2012 begins to count at the ballot box today. Early in-person voting begins in each of Ohio’s 88 counties at 8 a.m. while the first of more than 922,000 absentee ballots will begin to be mailed today by county boards of elections. Democrats marked…
Testy debate in Massachusetts for key U.S. Senate seat
Brown termed himself an “independent” several times, citing his moderate voting record and saying that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “will have to work very hard to earn my vote” in the next Congress. He slammed Warren for not being able to name a Republican senator who she would be able to work with. She…
Report: Mitt Romney plan leaves 72M uninsured
Mitt Romney’s health care plan wouldn’t just insure fewer people than “Obamacare” — it would make the uninsured problem worse than it would have been if the law had never passed, according to a comparison of the two plans released Tuesday morning. The analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care research foundation,…
Angry At Washington Gridlock? You May Want To Look In The Mirror
It’s easy to get upset during a political era in which the leaders of the two major parties seem incapable of putting aside their differences and working together to solve the nation’s problems. But if there’s plenty of blame to go around, some of it belongs to the voters themselves. They are the ones who…
What Mitt Romney got from offshore investments
The New York Times’ Michael Luo and Mike McIntire report that Mitt Romney’s use of offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands have enabled both his individual retirement account and Bain Capital to avoid taxes. Some of the offshore entities enabled Bain-owned companies to sidestep certain taxes, increasing returns for Mr. Romney and other investors. Others helped Bain attract foreign investors and nonprofit…
Brown, Warren meet for second debate tonight
Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor and Democrat trying to unseat him, have their second debate Monday night in a setting almost befitting the gladiators. They were meeting for an hour before a crowd of 5,700 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center. David Gregory, host of the NBC…
YouTube to air presidential debates live on Elections page
YouTube has partnered with ABC News to cover the four presidential and vice presidential debates. The company announced today that it will air the three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate live on its Elections Hub page. YouTube says it will get the feed live from the ABC News YouTube channel and will air…
Register to Vote With Google
Back in August, Google launched a partnership with TurboVote as part of its Online Voter Guide — a portal for Google users to get easy information about voting. The online guide gives direct access to TurboVote, where users can register to vote, vote by mail and get deadline reminders sent to them by SMS or email. There are election…
Tight Race Except in the Swing States
But across the swing states, Obama leads among likely voters by a much larger margin, 52% to 41%, paralleling Obama’s advantages in recent Washington Post polls in Florida, Ohio and Virginia. Also interesting: Voters now think Obama will prevail on November 6 by a 32 point margin, 63% to 31%. via Tight Race Except in…
Five things to watch in the presidential debate
The debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday marks the first time the two candidates will be able to challenge each other directly on the economic issues that have been the focus of the presidential campaign. Viewers should be able to determine how each candidate fares by keeping an eye…
Warren Edges Brown in Another Poll
Warren maintains her lead despite a small likability gap. Fifty-two percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Brown, compared to 33 percent who view him unfavorably. Warren’s numbers are more mixed: 47 percent favorable, versus 37 percent unfavorable. But Warren continues to outpace Brown on two key measures. By a 43-percent-to-35-percent margin, voters…
Dispatch Poll: Obama widens lead as balloting starts
A new Dispatch Poll shows him trailing President Barack Obama in bellwether Ohio by 9 points, 51 percent to 42 percent. A surge of Democratic support for Obama has transformed the race since the first Dispatch Poll had the two dead-even at 45 percent just before the Republican National Convention in late August. The survey…
Obama Beats Romney as Better for Middle-Income Americans
More Americans believe middle-income earners would be better off in four years if President Barack Obama is re-elected than if Mitt Romney wins, by 53% to 43%. The public also says lower-income Americans would be better off under an Obama presidency, while, by an even larger margin, they say upper-income Americans would do better under…
Romney Advisers: Bring Torture Back
The memo, which contains a number of factual errors and misleading statements, lays out two courses for a President Romney: Either immediately promise to rescind Obama’s executive order upon taking office, or initiate a “comprehensive review” of interrogation policy that ends with Romney rescinding Obama’s executive order. Though the outcome of the “review” is never…
Mitt Romneys Real Agenda
The GOP legislation awaiting Romneys signature isnt simply a return to the era of George W. Bush. From abortion rights and gun laws to tax giveaways and energy policy, its far worse. Measures that have already sailed through the Republican House would roll back clean-air protections, gut both Medicare and Medicaid, lavish trillions in tax…
The smiling and crying babies of campaign 2012 – Photos
Politicians this cycle may be dogged by the popular notion they’re acting like babies, but that hasn’t stopped them from engaging in the time-honored tradition of photo ops with babies out on the campaign trail. Here are some of the cutest — if most “emotionally manipulative” — of those moments this year. MORE: The smiling and…
NEW ROMNEY VIDEO: In 1985, He Said Bain Would “Harvest” Companies for Profits
His campaign spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, has said that Romney’s Bain days afford him more expertise than Obama to “focus on job creation and turn around our nation’s faltering economy.” Romney has even claimed that during his tenure at Bain, “we were able to help create over 100,000 jobs.” In his acceptance speech at the Republican…