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
NRA declines to comment on President Obama’s new call for gun control.
Colbert: I’m glad someone finally brought up the whole Anglo-Saxon thing.
So as you know, yesterday the Daily Telegraph claimed it talked to a Romney ‘advisor’ who suggested that Barack Obama simply doesn’t grasp the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ heritage that makes the US-UK ‘special relationship’ such a cornerstone of US security. This seemed like a more than usually explicit suggestion that Barack Obama may be (shall we say) lineage-ly incapable of understanding just what this whole being an American thing is really about. Suspicion fell quickly on Romney foreign policy advisor Nile Gardiner who specializes in the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ and has — as Laura Rozen points out — a rather Blimpish penchant for invoking the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ peoples and their heritage as a cornerstone of his foreign policy views. Gardiner quickly, flatly — if rather implausibly — denied that he was the source in question, though he did concede that the Telegraph reporter had contacted him for the article in question.
[Late Update: This morning a knowledgable source at the Telegraph confirmed Gardiner’s denial, i.e., that he was not the source of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ quote in the original article.] Read More
Romney on Rafalca: “I have to tell you. This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well.”
Sen. Al Franken eulogizes long time comedy writing partner Tom Davis on the Senate floor.