Peggy Noonan predicts a Romney win: “All the vibrations are right.”
TPM Reader AB says I’ve got it wrong on the auto bailout …
I have to disagree with your assessment of President Obama vs. generic Republican in the handling of the auto industry bailout. This one is pretty personal for me since I live in Southeast Michigan and work for an automotive supplier. I followed this one pretty close. There was very little support outside of the state of Michigan and Ohio for bailing out GM and Chrysler from either party. The Southern Wing of the Republican Party opposed Bush’s handout to GM and Chrysler to keep them afloat as he kicked the can down the road to the next guy and they were 100% opposed to Obama’s decision to save GM and Chrysler.
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We all know how pivotal a role the auto bailout has played in this year’s election. Mitt Romney paid a deceptive tribute to this fact in his wildly deceptive “Jeep” ad that he closed the campaign on. The whole history though is filled with irony. It’s worth remembering just how deeply unpopular the auto bailout was at the time. Read More
John McCain’s top strategist Steve Schmidt cops to it: ‘vote fraud’ is a bogus issue. It doesn’t exist. Watch.
What’s really a crime is that every GOP strategist knows this. It’s just a ploy to keep supporters paranoid and ignorant and key Democratic constituencies deprived of their voting rights.
Donor to obscure Arizona group that dropped $11 million on California ballot initiatives revealed to be Americans for Job Security — but they funneled the money through an intermediary: The Center to Protect Patient Rights. Eric Lach has more on the late breaking revelations.
Dems upset that Arizona Senate candidate Jeff Flake placed robocalls to Democrats telling them to go the wrong polling place on election day.
Flake campaign says it was an accident.