White House intervention on ‘Jerusalem’ platform appears to at least slightly change the President’s position on the charged and perennial issue.
How Dems almost lost control of the voice vote in favor of putting God and Jerusalem back in the platform.
Mitt Romney is doubling down on a claim he made earlier this year: that the President’s successful bailout of the auto industry was actually Romney’s idea. This from today’s interview with Carl Cameron of Fox News.
My view from the beginning was the auto companies needed to go through a managed bankruptcy. And ultimately, that’s what the president did. He finally took them through managed bankruptcy. But it took him six months to get there.
For some six months, Romney’s has been trying to retrospectively change his position on the autobailout, to position himself as the originator of a plan that proved successful. In fact, Romney supported a form of bankruptcy that most experts agree would have led to the liquidation of most or all of the US auto industry.
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Last night at the convention, Democrats unveiled a new kind of economic patriotism. It wasn’t offered as a substitute for what we might call traditional gung-ho patriotism, because there was plenty of that still on display. But unlike past efforts by Democrats to redefine patriotism, this new-style patriotism was muscular, aggressive, and didn’t back down. And it gave a structure and context — a spine perhaps? — to a range of Democratic Party themes, encompassing policy proposals like a more progressive tax system and political attacks on Mitt Romney like his use of offshore bank accounts.
Take a look at how it was woven into speeches by four different Democratic luminaries– Cory Booker, Martin O’Malley, Ted Strickland and Harry Reid: Read More
New voting rights coalition launches major registration drive in advance of November.
What effect did the RNC have on Mitt Roney’s polling numbers? PollTracker editor Kyle Leighton takes a look:
If you thought life was fair. It’s not. Former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) had an affair with staffer Doug Hampton’s wife. Now Hampton’s getting sentenced to a year on probation.
Ohio Secretary of State tries to ignore a pro-voting rights court ruling which would reinstate early voting in the state. Can the Obama campaign force his hand?