Shots fired into Obama campaign office in Denver …
Denver police say someone has fired a shot through the window of President Barack Obama’s Denver campaign office.
Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says people were inside the office when the shooting happened Friday afternoon, but no one was injured. A large panel of glass was left shattered at the office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street.
In case you missed it yesterday, read our report on the little known million dollar giver who helped keep Priorities USA chugging along in the lean days in early 2012.
TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 253, Romney 220 as North Carolina moves from Leans Romney to Toss Up.
This is slightly nitpicky, but something Mitt Romney said recently when discussing health insurance and mortality really jumped out at me.
Here’s what he told the Columbus Dispatch: “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.”
Which is very similar to what he told 60 Minutes: “If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care.” Read More
Do people think a security request from a US consulate ends up on the President’s desk? The Vice President’s? Assuming the reporters flogging this know this but are choosing to ignore this obvious point?
Mitt Romney says people don’t die because they lack health insurance. Actually they do. Lots of them.
For Democrats hungry to see a member of their team get back into the game, these moments of Joe Biden pinning Paul Ryan down on his tax plan were quite welcome. You should watch. But the real significance was finally getting down in public and on the record Ryan’s (and Romney’s) dogged refusal to explain how their math could possibly work. Read More
TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 256, Romney 235 based on the Maxon-Dixon and new Rasmussen polls pushing Florida into the Lean Romney category.