GOP chair in Connecticut, on Linda McMahon urging black voters to vote for her and Obama: “Some Republicans may not favor this tactic, but I’m confident that we will close ranks by Tuesday because there is so much at stake.”
California says it’s going to reveal the donors to Americans For Responsible Leadership, an obscure Arizona group that suddenly dropped $11 million on two California ballot initiatives. The backstory on the group here.
Over the course of the day I want to hit some of what appear to have been the fundamentals in the race, what created the terrain on which all the blocking-and-tackling and tactics took place. They’re far from unknown but with all the screaming and shouting of the last month, they’re sometimes overlooked. One big thing: the impact of intense labor fights in Wisconsin and especially Ohio and the clear stand against labor taken by Mitt Romney. In Ohio at least, there’s little doubt he’s paying a big price. Here’s the story.
Dems upset that Arizona Senate candidate Jeff Flake placed robocalls to Democrats telling them to go the wrong polling place on election day.
Flake campaign says it was an accident.
Donor to obscure Arizona group that dropped $11 million on California ballot initiatives revealed to be Americans for Job Security — but they funneled the money through an intermediary: The Center to Protect Patient Rights. Eric Lach has more on the late breaking revelations.
John McCain’s top strategist Steve Schmidt cops to it: ‘vote fraud’ is a bogus issue. It doesn’t exist. Watch.
What’s really a crime is that every GOP strategist knows this. It’s just a ploy to keep supporters paranoid and ignorant and key Democratic constituencies deprived of their voting rights.
We all know how pivotal a role the auto bailout has played in this year’s election. Mitt Romney paid a deceptive tribute to this fact in his wildly deceptive “Jeep” ad that he closed the campaign on. The whole history though is filled with irony. It’s worth remembering just how deeply unpopular the auto bailout was at the time. Read More
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