Mayor of town whose police force charged with rampant abuse of Latino residents declares: Let Them Eat Tacos!
Quinnipiac has a poll out of Florida this morning which has Mitt Romney up by 2 points. But the internals are key. The poll straddles the South Carolina primary: three days (254 interviews) before and two days (347 interviews) after the results. Before the primary Romney was up by 11 points; after Newt was up by 6 points. So we still have the same basic picture of Newt making dramatic gains in the wake of the Saturday’s results.
The new data brings the TPM Poll Average of Florida is Gingrich 35.8%, Romney 32.3%, Santorum 10.9%, Paul 9%.
Trend chart after the jump … Read More
Walker starts out ahead against Dems in the upcoming recall election.
Evan McMorris-Santoro on how the professional left is reacting to the fundraising prospects of Newt Gingrich winning the GOP nomination. Money quote: “We all think it’s funny as shit, but I don’t see anyone believing it could actually happen.”
Gabby Giffords resigns from Congress today. Watch her entrance into the House chamber for the State of the Union address last night: Read More
President Obama’s State of the Union turns into point-by-point refutation of Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney just said on NBC that President Obama raised corporate tax rates. But that is simply false.
Well, in some respects I have to compliment the president on adopting a whole series of ideas that I’ve been speaking about for the last several years. If you want to get the economy going, lower corporate tax rates. He’s raised them.
In the land of 30 second commercials you could probably fudge and said that parts of health care reform raised fees on corporations. But Romney specifically says rates, which is just demonstrably not true. Our Brian Beutler caught it when he said it.
Has anyone heard Romney say precisely this before?