The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics came under fire after news emerged that police stops in New York City increased by more than half a million between 2003 and 2011, and that New York officers conducted more stops of young black men in 2011 than there are young black men in the city. A significant proportion of NYPD stops, 10…
Phoenix Mayor Attempts To Live On A Food Stamp Budget: ‘I’m Tired, And It’s Hard To Focus’
When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard it was. Stanton kept a diary on the challenge, which allotted him roughly $29 a week, the same…
46 Republicans Claim Wind Credits Are Too ‘Costly’ After Voting To Retain Billions In Big Oil Subsidies
The future of wind tax credits is still tied up in Congress as the clock runs down to extend the production tax credit for wind (PTC) expiring at the end of the year. This week, 47 House Republicans urged House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to let them expire. Although GOP districts hold 81 percent of…
Romney vs. Romney on Struggling Americans
Mitt Romney released a new ad to try and recover after dismissing half of America, but Mitt Romney’s words speak for themselves
Why Romney is losing must-win Ohio
A handful of GOP strategists blamed Romney’s standing on campaign staffers who aren’t Ohio natives. One longtime Republican strategist griped about the “arrogant top-down” approach of the Romney team and said they have done a poor job listening to the advice of savvy Ohio strategists — a charge rebuffed by Romney aides who point out…
Obama Approval, Vote Support Both Reach 50% or Better
President Barack Obamas job approval rating has been 50% or higher in each of the last four Gallup Daily tracking figures, including a 51% rating in the latest three-day rolling average, from Sept. 23-25. This nearly matches the level of approval for Obama that Gallup found at the end of the Democratic National Convention earlier…
The Numbers Favor the President
If you eliminate the candidates with double-digit leads, the front-runner’s record is eight Electoral College wins in 10 tries, or a batting average of 80 percent. This a simple method — to the point of being crude. But it’s interesting, nevertheless, that the 80 percent figure corresponds quite well with the FiveThirtyEight forecast, which gave…
Latest Swing State Polls
Here are the latest polls from the battleground states, updated as needed through the day:Florida: Obama 53%, Romney 44% (NYT/CBS/Quinnipiac)Ohio: Obama 53%, Romney 43% (NYT/CBS/Quinnipiac)Pennsylvania: Obama 54%, Romney 42% (NYT/CBS/Quinnipiac) via Latest Swing State Polls.
Mitt Romney: No campaign cash from teachers’ unions
It’s not unusual for Republicans to advocate limiting or eliminating campaign contributions from public employees unions. But in an election cycle where both candidates are raking in large fundraising hauls and super PACs backed by unlimited contributions from wealthy donors are surging, Romney offered a more robust criticism of the campaign finance system. Romney argued…
Scott Brown Shows His Prejudice
I’ve been wondering about this for a few days. Scott Brown has made the ‘controversy’ over Elizabeth Warren’s purported Native American heritage a centerpiece of the final lap of the campaign. Indeed, his staffers went so far today as to taunt Warren with “tomahawk chops” mocking her claims. But at the debate, Brown said this…
WATCH: Scott Brown Staffers “Tomahawk Chop” at Warren Volunteers
On Monday, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) released a new television ad hammering his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, for identifying herself as part Native American to her employers at Harvard Law School. On Tuesday, the progressive blog Blue Mass Group published this video, which shows at least three two top Brown staffers shouting Indian war whoops and making tomahawk gestures at a group…
Health Insurance To Provide Easy-To-Understand Plan Summaries
On Monday, a health law provision goes into effect that requires insurance companies to provide user-friendly guides that provide explanations of plan benefits that will be as clear and easy to understand as the nutrition facts provided on food packages. Reuters: Health Insurers Begin To Provide User-Friendly Plan Guides The Obama administration on Monday began…
Weekly Address: Congress Must Act to Create Jobs and Grow the Economy
President Obama describes how the House of Representatives left town without finishing important work that would create jobs and strengthen our economy.
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench
“I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday. Coming from a resident of Iowa, a state where…
Romney Medicaid Remarks Raise Eyebrows
He used even more colorful language back in 2007, talking to Fox News host Glenn Beck. “When they show up at the hospital, they get care; they get free care paid for by you and me,” he said. “If that’s not a form of socialism, I don’t know what is.” But in addition to flip-flopping,…
As Polls Show Romney Trailing In Swing States, Obama Edges Towards 270 Goal
So there is evidence of voters changing their mind as the finish line approaches. But this year there doesn’t seem to be much movement in the polls, and certainly not towards Romney. In my July 9 column, my projections had Obama with 247 electoral votes to Romney’s 206, with 270 needed to win. Eighty-five electoral…
Record Number Of Early Votes Expected Ahead Of Election Day
Tuesday marks six weeks until Election Day, but registered voters in two dozen states are already able to cast a ballot for president, with more states to allow early voting in the coming weeks. In the 2000 presidential election, early voting accounted for 15 percent of the total ballots cast. By 2008, that doubled to…
Romney Wonders Why Airplane Windows Don’t Open
Mitt Romney, a 65-year-old man with two advanced degrees, has no idea why they don’t let you open airplane windows mid-flight, according to his own remarks at a fund-raiser in Beverly Hills on Saturday: MORE: Romney Wonders Why Airplane Windows Don’t Open — Daily Intel.
Latest Swing State Polls
Here are the today’s swing state polls, updated as needed throughout the day:Colorado: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling)Florida: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (American Research Group)Iowa: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group)Michigan: Obama 54%, Romney 42% (Rasmussen)North Carolina: Obama 49%, Romney 45% (Civitas)Nevada: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group)Wisconsin: Obama 53%, Romney…
The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video
I’ve noted that the great thing about this story is that people can watch the video for themselves—7 million people went to this site or YouTube in the first days of the video’s release and did that—and reach their own conclusions. Yet one sentence did stand out to me. When Romney was in mid-rant about…