President Obama kicked off his reelection campaign today with rousing speeches in Ohio and Virginia. Check out our report from on the ground in Virginia.
Our video editor Michael Lester has put together this marvelous video mash-up: Republicans on ‘Politicizing’ terrorism, then (2004) and now (2012). Watch.
Democrats vote Tuesday to decide who will face Gov. Walker in the recall election in June. Last night they met to debate and here’s our report on how it went down.
The FBI in Phoenix says neo-Nazi JT Ready, who allegedly carried out a brutal murder-suicide this week in Arizona, was under investigation by their office for domestic terrorism at the time of the massacre.
Our vid-meister Mike Lester pulls together clips from the 2004 campaign to show you how politicizing national security is really done. Take a good look.
TPM Reader NB responds to our piece on the prominence of mayors in Obama’s re-election campaign:
I think the observation about mayoral surrogates is a good one, but
it’s ignoring the basic fact that there aren’t many popular Democratic
governors.Partly that’s because there aren’t many popular governors,
period, but also because there aren’t many Democratic governors,
period. Of the 10 most populous states only four are run by Democrats:
New York, California, Illinois, and North Carolina.
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) to his supporters: “At this point, help.”
Brian Beutler explains what the labor force participation rate is and why the fact that it’s at the lowest level since 1981 doesn’t say as much about the current weak economic growth as about long term demographics and social policy.
Conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin tells TPM that, despite what Mitt Romney said today about any unemployment rate above 4 percent not being worth celebrating, “4 percent is not a realistic target.”