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
TPM Reader CG:
First, I’d be working the words “blind trust” into every anti-Romney attack ad imaginable, and not just in reference to his actual blind trust.
Second, what, you don’t think “I have craploads of money in the Caribbean that I don’t even look after!” is going to work in down economic times?
Mitt Romney falls back on the “blind trust” defense to explain his Bermuda and Caymans holdings.
Carl Franzen on Amtrak’s new(ish) plan for 220-m.p.h. high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor.
Ed Rollins: GOP needs to be less old, fat and white. Watch.
The new ABC/WaPo polls show that support for ‘Obamacare’ went from 53%-39% against in April to 47% to 47% today.
GOP lobbyist and Romney bundler hired by state of Pennsylvania to educate voters about state’s new voter ID law.
TPM Reader RW thinks there’s more afoot in the President’s new tax cut push than just the taxes — similar to a point our Brian Beutler made today about how it puts Romney in a very dicey position.
One point which seems to largely have been missed in Obama’s tax offensive is that it completely revives the discussion on the GOP’s obstruction. Here is an area where the parties agree–98% of Americans should not have their taxes raised. Yet the GOP, purely for political advantage, refuses to compromise on the issue in order to preserve the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. They are putting politics in front of tax relief for the vast majority of people. Americans will not tolerate that.