Has anyone noticed that the Romney advisor behind the ‘Romney Economic Boom’ is the guy responsible for one of the most spectacularly wrong and wildly optimistic economic predictions of the 1990s?
This week the Romney campaign was knocked on its heels by a study which suggested that Romney’s tax plan would — in addition to giving a windfall to the wealthiest Americans — increase taxes on 95% of Americans. So the guy who’s running for President to turn back President Obama’s supposedly high-taxing and deficit creating ways would actually raise taxes on virtually everyone and also explode the deficit. Read More
It happens the first Friday of every month, but the cable nets never let that stop them from going craaazy. Watch.
Mitt Romney’ new demand that Harry Reid needs to “put up or shut up” is pretty rich. Let’s stipulate that Reid’s bald, unsubstantiated claim that Mitt went 10 years without having to pay taxes is, well, bald and unsubstantiated. Still, in the spectrum of vicious political attacks, this doesn’t rank. It’s not the unprovable, unknowable, can’t-wash-off-the-stink, scurrilous savagery that any candidate is defenseless against. Read More
Romney has Reid right where he wants him, pinned down in an argument over whether Romney should release his tax returns … D’oh!
The civil rights movement and the space program always shared a strange juxtaposition of 19th century agrarianism and 20th century technological achievement. So maybe it should be no surprise that we’re currently confronting our civil rights demons in the parking lots of fried chicken joints while one of our spacecraft makes its final approach to Mars. But still … what the hell, America?
Heard about that new ‘voter fraud’ study ballyhooed in conservative media which claims that Democrats are the main perpetrators of vote fraud and that voter ID laws protect rather than disenfranchise minority and elderly voters?
Well, turns out the ‘study’ is a short paper cobbled together from unsubstatianted media reports and the author is a GOP operative who himself had to plead guilty to falsifying documents in the Abramoff scandal.
First, thanks so much to everyone who’s downloaded PollTracker Mobile today. It’s been a great launch and it’s now #6 in the AppStore among free News Apps. The main question we’ve gotten today and really the only thing that comes close to a real criticism has been: why no Android version? So let me take a moment to explain what our plan is on that front. Read More
If you’re a campaign tracker, be sure the guy in the car you’re following is really the opposing candidate and not a local judge who gets scared he’s being tailed and calls the cops.
Ryan Reilly says the opponents of Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law are feeling bullish about their odds of prevailing at trial.