Be sure to join us tonight at 8 PM Eastern for live results of the Iowa Caucus, the first ‘voting’ of the 2012 primary cycle.
We’ll have live county by county results of the totals out of Iowa.
Obama seems to tip his hand on a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Mitt Romney is now repeatedly saying that he created a net 100,000 jobs in his tenure at Bain Capital. But there seems to be no evidence to substantiate this claim. In fact, in previous campaigns the Romney campaign has been pressed on this number and to the best of my knowledge never been able to offer any evidence.
Mitt Romney hosted his rousing campaign finish in Clive, Iowa last night with a speech that repeated the China-bashing mantra that has become a staple of his campaign speeches. Only problem: the company that hosted Romney’s speech specializes in outsourcing work to China.
But don’t be confused: the host and business owner tells Evan McMorris-Santoro: Romney’s China-bashing is just hot air.
Mitt Romney is just finishing up a speech bashing China — inter alia — at a factory in Iowa that openly prides itself on its ability to outsource work to China.
Benjy Sarlin explores one of the odder dynamics of the GOP primary cycle: The more the candidates vied to be the anti-Romney, the more shots they took at each other and the fewer they took at Mitt, leaving him largely untouched in some of the most bruising campaign battles leading up to the Iowa caucus.
Our ace video editor Michael Lester compiled this blooper reel from outtakes of TPM’s Campaign In 100 Seconds series: Read More