Romney on House Republicans: “You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress. He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them. The debt ceiling will come up again, and shutdown and default will be threatened, chilling the economy.”
Interesting graphic showing the location of the Sandy-related deaths on Staten Island and the evacuation zone.
One more little gem from our chronically and embarrassingly broken campaign finance disclosure system. The laws as currently written allow super PACs to wait to accept all their cash until the final stages of the campaign and thereby avoid disclosing its donors until after the election is over. So no contributions accepted until the very end, and then a last-minute ad blitz that no one is accountable for until it’s too late. We have specific examples of this practice in Ohio and in Montana/North Dakota.
The average distance between stars in the universe is approximately 4,150 light-years.
Benjy Sarlin was at the Romney rally in Richmond yesterday and got a chance to talk to attendees about Mitt, Obama, and where they see the race headed. Some delightful on the ground reporting.
The way the Bureau of Labor Statistics didn’t count nearly 100,000 new jobs back in August shows how deeply involved the White House was in monkeying with the numbers.
Republicans will look back on the Indiana race as the single biggest missed opportunity in the Senate this cycle, if today’s polling bears out.
A new poll out today and the Polltracker average show Obama pulling ahead substantially in New Hampshire.
I’m pretty jaded about funny campaign vids. But this genuinely made me laugh out loud. After the jump … Read More