Obama: Biden “got out a little over his skis” on same sex marriage.
Barney Frank: “Look, I note that this happens just a couple months before my own marriage. And it makes me very happy both because he’s doing it and because it confirms that we are on the verge of winning this fight within 10 years.”
TPM Reader BT on that Mitt video …
Did you notice that each of these things that Mitt got testy about are issues important to young people? The entirety of this election is generational, with racial and cultural layers built over it. And the Ryan budget is the keystone of that: make everybody under 54 pay full Medicare for everybody over and then cut them off.
Generational warfare is the core animating force of our politics.
The most gleeful and the most bitter reactions to Obama’s same sex marriage shift.
Romney gets impatient for interviewer to ask him questions about “issues of significance” after questions about gay marriage, the DREAM Act and medical marijuana.
TPM’s David Taintor on how President Obama’s big interview with ABC came down.
TPMPolltracker guru Kyle Leighton debuts our new video series “Crosstabs”. He goes deep into the numbers to give you a clearer (but never boring) picture of what’s really happening in Campaign 2012.
TPM Reader CN thinks President Obama just gave away the election …
I wish I could agree with reader WB. Most of me is absolutely thrilled to see Obama boldly step forward to the right side of history. But I also have this sinking feeling: the feeling that Obama just handed the election to Romney.
A few minutes ago TPM Reader FZ flagged this passage in a statement Gov. Romney made this morning on the gay marriage issue. Romney was clear and categorical on his opposition to same sex marriages (no surprise there). But he did seem to hedge, pretty needlessly, on the issue of civil unions.
Here’s the quote … Read More
Gov. Mitt Romney has now made his first public statement since President Obama’s announcement of support for gay marriage. Aside from reaffirming his opposition, his main angle appears to be that this makes Obama a ‘flip flopper’.
I must say, I think that’s the sort of angle that is silly enough to be damaging to Romney.