Mitt Romney hosted his rousing campaign finish in Clive, Iowa last night with a speech that repeated the China-bashing mantra that has become a staple of his campaign speeches. Only problem: the company that hosted Romney’s speech specializes in outsourcing work to China.
But don’t be confused: the host and business owner tells Evan McMorris-Santoro: Romney’s China-bashing is just hot air.
Mitt Romney is now repeatedly saying that he created a net 100,000 jobs in his tenure at Bain Capital. But there seems to be no evidence to substantiate this claim. In fact, in previous campaigns the Romney campaign has been pressed on this number and to the best of my knowledge never been able to offer any evidence.
Obama seems to tip his hand on a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Be sure to join us tonight at 8 PM Eastern for live results of the Iowa Caucus, the first ‘voting’ of the 2012 primary cycle.
We’ll have live county by county results of the totals out of Iowa.
Iowa is just a preview of the flood of ‘Super Pac/Citizens United’ money coming this Fall.
First we learn there’s no Santa, now we hear that we can’t believe Twitter ‘verified’ accounts?
Inside the heart-rending Wendi Deng Murdoch twitter (non) tragedy.
The Iowa hype finally went through the roof today… and TPM’s Michael Lester boiled down all the breathless chatter into a sizzling 100 seconds.