Evan McMorris-Santoro on why the Romney campaign thinks it can pull off a victory in South Carolina without having a particularly stellar ground game.
South Carolina was always going to be a real race. And now it is.
A video chronicle of how Romney’s job creation claims have dwindled, and dwindled fast.
I suspect that the GOP nomination battle is pretty close to done. But don’t be so sure about South Carolina itself. I heard the pundits talking this morning on MSNBC about how Rick Santorum, rather than Newt Gingrich, was the one who could give Mitt Romney a run for his money in the state. But that sounded really off to me. The latest polls suggest that Santorum is losing support, as is Romney and Gingrich is either holding his own or gaining.
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Turns out the government doesn’t need Warren Buffett’s help to make up most of the budget deficit. It would be in pretty good shape if it could only collect all of the money legally owed to it anyway. But guess who’s standing in the way of that?
At least, that’s what you’d think if all you had to go on was cable news today. Michael Lester wraps up the GOP establishment freakout into a stunning 100 seconds. Meanwhile, Benjy Sarlin teases out its implications here.
Newt defends his attacks on the very foundation of rapacious capitalism, to the good folks at Fox and Friends. Watch.
A year ago, heck even six months ago, progressives would have been stunned to find populist themes at the core of the Obama re-election campaign. But the evidence that they will use income inequality as a rallying cry to define this election and paint Mitt Romney into a corner is abundant, from the man himself to his advisers to his surrogates. Today’s example: White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Alan Krueger went down the street to the friendly confines of the Center for American Progress to give a speech on … income inequality and declining income mobility.
With the GOP establishment moving to defend Mitt Romney and capitalism itself from Newt Gingrich and the Democrats, Rudy Giuliani rushes in to save the day: “What the hell are you doing, Newt?” Watch.