The depressing upshot of this winter’s recovery-that-wasn’t is that the economy will probably limp along through the rest of the year, unless it actually gets knocked down by a collapsing Euro or some other outside force.
Beneath the obvious political and human costs of that volatility, though, lies the potential that everything we think we know about the chaotic post-election legislative landscape is totally wrong. Read More
Late last year there was a minority view among economists that said the economy was about to perk up in a big way. And then it actually happened. And then it stopped happening. Our Brian Beutler spoke to one of the main proponents of this view to find out what went wrong.
The pace of campaign polling is heating up. And we have a series of new releases tied to PollTracker coming this month. First up a completely redesigned PollTracker at TPM and more. Stay tuned.
Other polls have shown a solid Obama lead. But EPIC-MRA, the big in-state pollster, says Romney is up over Obama by only 1 point.
Romney’s new campaign attack against President Obama is sourced to a new book called The Escape Artists. But the author of the book says the claim is false.
Mitt Romney and the RNC took in a much bigger cash haul in May than President Obama and the DNC.
We’ve decided to change the date of our annual survey from today to next Tuesday. Again, it’s very important to the health and growth of the site. So please keep your eyes out.
The crew of Fox & Friends is very excited for their summer road trip to the Republican and Democratic conventions.
They’ll be heading to Tampa, to Charlotte, AND to North Carolina.
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We’ve had an avalanche of responses to TPM Reader HS’s rough email on public sector unions. Here’s one of many, focusing on what I think is a key point. From TPM Reader BB …
I’m sure one of many emails that you received concerning the financial guy commenting on public employee unions. Full disclosure: public school teacher from WI that signed and collected recall petitions, marched in Madison in the winter and cannot wait to vote for anyone else other than Scott Walker. But I also believe that the author of the email is voicing a popular sentiment concerning public employee jobs and unions in general.