British press gives its take on Mitt’s awesome day in the UK.
To end of day, the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is now whipping up a crowd of 60,000 in Hyde Park by mocking Mitt Romney.
The percentage of registered voters who think President Obama is a Christian is edging toward 50 percent, an 11-point increase from August 2010, but still short of the 55 percent who thought so in October 2008, according to a new poll from Pew. But the percent who think he is Muslim has declined by just 2 percentage points in the last two years, down to 17 percent. The dreaded “don’t know” answer is down 10 percentage points over that time frame.
A knowledgable source at the Daily Telegraph confirmed to me this morning that Romney advisor Nile Gardiner’s denial (that he was the source of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ comment) was in fact accurate. See my piece on this subject from last night.
David Cameron, responding to Mitt Romney’s Olympic critique: “Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”
Mitt Romney’s trip abroad appears to be off to a smashing start. As a number of TPM Readers flagged to us last night Romney managed to insult his British hosts, knocking their management of the Summer Olympics in comparison to his run with the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002.
Talking to Brian Williams last night, Romney opined … Read More
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Colbert: I’m glad someone finally brought up the whole Anglo-Saxon thing.