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.”
As the Romney campaign continues to struggle and an Obama victory seems more likely, we’re starting to hear an odd replay of 2008. Part of it is the claim that the press isn’t nice to Mitt Romney, wants Obama to win blah, blah, blah. Partly, this is just what partisans fall back on when their candidate starts to fail. Reporters got negative when Mitt said half the country was made up of mooching losers. Everybody can see through this. But there’s also that particular take on Barack Obama: Mitt isn’t winning because he hasn’t really taken the gloves off, given Obama the beating he deserves — whether it’s Reverend Wright or Socialism or hating America or whatever. Read More
Ann Romney says Mitt was taken out of context, doesn’t disdain poor.
In North Carolina House debate, Republican Mark Meadows tells voters: I’m no Mitt Romney! Read More
Is Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin surging too? Like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, but coming back from a much larger deficit, Baldwin has now crept into the lead. Read More
Colbert fixes Romney’s problem by delivering the 47 percent message … with more elegance.
The Romney campaign is now pushing the line that his infamous fundraiser comments were pointed at the growth of government under President Obama and the evils of dependency. He’s even saying now that his comments help clarify his position and sharpen the ideological debate.
Of course, this is not what he said. Read More