A Wisconsin-style anti-union bill that state Republicans aimed to push through the Arizona legislature is now on life support as state Senate Republicans have failed to come up with enough votes.
Mitt Romney should have one sure thing electoral nuclear weapon to use against Rick Santorum — the fact that Obama would crush Santorum and only Mitt stands a chance. The only problem is that it’s not clear that’s true anymore.
According to the TPM Poll Average, Obama now beats Romney by 5.1 percentage points. Obama beats Santorum by 7.2 percentage points. So Romney is a 2.1 percentage points better opponent. By contrast, Obama beats Gingrich by 16.3 percentage points. Big difference.
With Santorum, there’s just not enough to build an argument on.
So why is the Virginia legislature moving ahead on a voter ID law, despite no evidence of any of the sort of fraud that it seeks to prevent?
Turns out no one really has a good answer.
It’s my birthday today. I’m 43. It occurs to me that I’ve been doing TPM for basically half my adult life. Sort of mind-blowing to me. It’s like I cheated the whole grown up thing and managed to do what I wanted to do anyway.
A lot of readers to thank for that.
Thank you.
Sens. Snowe and Collins ask for more details on Obama birth control rule.
Nicolas Sarkozy opens Twitter account to kick off tough reelection campaign.
I think Mitt Romney’s infamous “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” line will likely prove lethal to him in key Midwestern industrial states this November. But behind the headline there’s a dirty little secret: what Romney actually proposed wasn’t that dramatically different from what Obama actually did. The problem is Mitt committed so heavily to the no-bailout, anti-intervention rhetoric, that he’s now saddled with being on the wrong side of Detroit’s comeback. It’s the price of shifting with every political wind. You can flip and flop but it’s hard to flip back a third time.
Earlier this evening I noted this eye-popping graphic which shows that Mitt Romney’s net favorability rating has plummeted to -24%. I don’t think many political observers would disagree that someone that far under water public opinion-wise is just not going to be elected president. That’s not going to happen. The real question is how and when Romney starts to unwind the damage. And here’s where the primary calendar becomes critical. Read More