I kept reading about how offended Bernie supporters were at being called ill-informed and naive. I read assertion after assertion about how they know what they are doing, and there are legitimate reasons for their support of this guy that I have no respect for and think is dangerous to progressives and the country….
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2016 Democratic debate: A victory for Clinton
Clinton was the clear winner of the first Democratic presidential debate, according to the assessment of both Democrats and Republicans in this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Seventy-nine percent of Democratic insiders surveyed said she dominated her four opponents…
2016 Republican Candidates Voters First Forum | Video | C-SPAN.org
All current or likely Republican presidential candidates were invited to take part in a “Voters First Republican Presidential Forum” on the campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. This event was the first opportunity to hear all of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates on one stage. The candidates appeared one at a time, answering questions determined…
Romney Invests In Chinese Companies That Steal From The U.S.
While Obama cited only one oil company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the Romneys’ 2010 and 2011 tax returns show investments in at least 10 Chinese companies, a total investment of at least $391,800. Among them were New Oriental Education and Technology, a company in which the Romneys’ blind trusts invested nearly $60,000. New Oriental…
Romney’s Own Website Refutes His Claim About Tax Cuts For The Rich
Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, unaffordable and have repeatedly failed to deliver any measurable economic benefits to the rest of the country. So it’s no wonder that during last night’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney didn’t want to embrace a policy of massive new tax cuts for the rich. “I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans,”…
The Biggest Lie Of The Debate? Romney’s False Claim About Clean Energy Bankruptcies
“And these [clean energy] businesses, many of them have gone out of business, I think about half of them, of the ones have been invested in, have gone out of business.” The New York Times, one of the few mainstream organizations to follow up on this claim, called Romney’s comment a “gross overstatement.” Actually,…
Romney Goes On Offense, Pays For It In First Wave Of Fact Checks
Here is a sample of what’s being reported about the truthiness of what Obama and Romney had to say Wednesday night on stage at the University of Denver: — One of the biggest disputes was over tax cuts. Obama argued that Romney’s plan to stimulate the economy includes a tax cut totaling $5 trillion…
Analysis: Reuters/Ipsos polls show scope of the challenge facing Romney
During the next five weeks – and three debates – Romney will make an appeal to voters aimed at overcoming an Obama campaign that has outflanked his own for much of the past four months. Romney enters the final sprint to the November 6 election behind in national polls and trailing in most of the…
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…
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…
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…
Website Tests How Political Opposites Actually Discuss Differences
By now, a couple of generations of moviegoers are familiar with the disembodied voice in a cornfield that leads Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to risk all for a baseball diamond. Web developer Pascal Rettig is not in as precarious a position as that fictional farmer, yet he has challenged himself by constructing a social stadium…
Climate models ignored by media (except for their critics)
The group also examined media sources favored by “high-political-knowledge audiences”. These included Time Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Newsweek, NPR, The Nation, The National Review, and The Rush Limbaugh Show. In 2007, contrarian viewpoints expressed in The Nation, The National Review, and The Rush Limbaugh Show accounted for one third of the stories mentioning…
McConnell: Im Filibustering Seventeen Judges Because Reid Made Republicans Look Bad
Both Reid and McConnell agree that there is nothing objectionable about these judges — in McConnell’s words, “it is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed.” Additionally, both men agree that the Senate should vote on the “IPO bill” that Reid refers to, a bill dealing with investments in…
GOP Contenders Hold ‘Raucous’ Debate In Vegas
The reviews are in about last night’s CNN Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas and the consensus seems to be that it was a slugfest in Sin City: — “The near-weekly ritual of Republican presidential debates took a raucous turn Tuesday night as the unsettled field of candidates ganged up on one another…
The jobs debate on Earth 2
“Republicans,” McCain said on Earth 2, “have a better idea than more tax cuts and government spending. The economy isn’t growing because households are buried under mortgage debt. So we propose to attack the problem at the source. On the advice of Harvard’s Martin Feldstein, we are introducing legislation that would empower the…
Telemundo Holding First GOP Debate
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…
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.
Bachmann proposes to eliminate all taxes
At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN proposed the elimination of all taxes, but then added that the government did need some money to run.“You earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you earned,” the candidate said. “That’s your money, that’s not the government’s money.” via Bachmann proposes…