From Roll Call …
“I just don’t think that any of our Members are tied to Romney at all,” said a top House GOP aide who requested anonymity to speak freely. “They just don’t connect the person to Romney, and that’s good for us.”
Elizabeth Warren: “Romney just wrote off half the people in Massachusetts and half the people in America as deadbeats. This is a separate category of contempt for half of our fellow citizens.”
I guess Wisconsin may not be a prime swing state for much longer. The gold standard in-state poll just released its latest survey and it shows Obama up by 14 points.
From Reuters …
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday showed that more than two in five registered voters, or 43 percent, viewed Romney less favorably after an excerpt of the video was shown to them online.
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) does the requisite distancing from Mitt Romney’s 47% comments … Read More
Brian Beutler traced the origin of the 47 percent meme in a piece he did for us today all the way back to the Nixon-McGovern race in 1972, but Bob Mann, a former Senate aide and author who now teaches at LSU, points to what may be the closest historical parallel to Romney’s 47 percent comment.
In 1963, Barry Goldwater told the Saturday Evening Post, “Sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea.” In the 1964 race, LBJ turned that into a memorable TV ad that is remarkably similar to this week’s reaction to Romney’s 47 percent remarks. Read More
Michael Falcone of ABC News quotes RNC Chair Reince Priebus: “This is going to be a choice election whether you’re Hispanic or Greek like me.”
That’s a big admission. From the beginning, the Romney campaign and the RNC has pushed to make this a referendum on President Obama. How’d he do? The Obama campaign has always wanted it to be a choice election. Who do you prefer? Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?
Since the economy is still pretty bad and people like Obama more than Romney, you can see which one the Obama campaign prefers.
From Sahil Kapur: “Senate Republican leaders fled their weekly press conference after delivering prepared remarks Wednesday without taking a single question from reporters eagerly seeking their thoughts on their presidential nominee’s newly unearthed remarks dismissing nearly half of American voters.”
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), on Romney’s 47 percent comments: “It’s going to help us in every swing district in America.”