The former RNC chairman talks to TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro and says Mitt Romney’s speech today to the NAACP is a “moot point” but he doesn’t stop there:
The RNC has done very little since I left office to expand on the work that we had done in this area. They’ve got a website, God bless them. It’s always good to put a website up with some black faces on it. Outreach.
Outreach indeed.
Conservative policy wonks: Obamacare is nothing like Romneycare; in fact, Romneycare isn’t much like Romneycare either!
Hoping Romney can be made to own Congressional intransigence, top Dems push Romney to answer for taking middle class income tax ‘hostage’.
Today we’re announcing the official release of the 2012 edition of PollTracker.com, TPM Media’s proprietary poll aggregating, averaging and charting application. It’s quite simply the best place on the web to find all the latest polls, averages of the races that you’re following and beautiful, interactive charts that help you visualize what’s happening in a race and where it’s likely to be going.
Join me after the jump for a complete tour. Read More
The market-disrupting Uber car-booking service prevails (for now) in its battle with DC’s Taxicab Commission.
Does the Obama tax proposal target small businesses, as Republicans have claimed for two years? Yes, totally — if by target you mean it affects roughly 3 percent of them.
Attorney General Holder calls new voter ID laws “poll taxes.”
Intent is the same; mechanism is the same. They may be the same.
A central element of the 2012 campaign cycle has become just when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital. The Romney campaign says he left in early 1999 — in time to get him off the hook for some controversial investments. Factcheck.org backs up Mitt while David Corn and the Obama campaign have brought forward numerous pieces of documentary evidence indicating he didn’t leave until a couple years later.
Now here’s even more evidence that he didn’t leave in 1999 as he now claims. Read More
Tomorrow we’re officially releasing the new and totally revamped PollTracker for the 2012 election. But this morning I wanted to give you a sneak preview of PollTracker mobile, a new iPhone app we’re releasing later this month.
If you’re a politics junkie, you’ll want to download this baby. In the palm of your hand, every presidential, congressional and gubernatorial poll in the country. The PollTracker average of Romney’s approval rating? The current horse race average? The latest presidential poll from Ohio? How about the Ohio Senate race? All just two clicks away. Read More