A new poll puts President Obama up 3 in Ohio — up 10 with independents.
The Romney campaign’s attempt to zoom past the fact that Paul Ryan called for the same $700 billion worth of Medicare cuts that President Obama made a part of the Affordable Care Act is clearly a work in progress. Witness John Sununu this morning.
Jeff Flake: Vote for me, though I would prefer you not be able to.
President Obama urged members of Congress Monday to pass a farm bill intended to relieve farmers struggling in the midst of a debilitating drought. He also signed off on $170 million in drought aid.
That might all be a product of Obama’s guilty conscience, suggested an aide to House Speaker John Boehner, who wrote on the official speaker’s website Monday that not only should Obama do more — he should take personal responsibility for the natural disaster: “The president continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself.”
Following a round of Internet mockery: The post now includes changed language, and an update.
With Paul Ryan’s arrival on the GOP ticket, the issue of Medicare is front and center in the campaign. Mitt Romney, Ryan and the RNC have wasted no time in trying to inoculate themselves from the coming Democratic onslaught over Ryan’s plan to privatize Medicare by saying that it is in fact President Obama who has cut mercilessly from the insurance program. But the attempt is a transparent sleight of hand. Sahil Kapur has the details.
It’s early days in the mission of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, but back on Earth geologists have discovered something significant about the Red Planet.
Sneak peek at the first joint Romney-Ryan interview about to air on 60 Minutes.