We’ve still got a very tight race and it would be a mistake to read too much into a few polls. But two new polls out overnight have pushed President Obama back into a narrow lead in the PollTracker Average. Trend chart after the jump … Read More
A new study by the highly respected Kaiser Family Foundation finds — not surprisingly — that converting Medicare to a voucher program will increase premiums for most seniors.
It’s looking like a Romney victory — inter alia — would mean Medicare abolished and replaced with a voucher program this Spring.
From Jon Chait …
Let’s first imagine that, on January 20, Romney takes the oath of office. Of the many secret post-victory plans floating around in the inner circles of the campaigns, the least secret is Romney’s intention to implement Paul Ryan’s budget. The Ryan budget has come to be almost synonymous with the Republican Party agenda, and Romney has embraced it with only slight variations. It would repeal Obamacare, cut income-tax rates, turn Medicare for people under 55 years old into subsidized private insurance, increase defense spending, and cut domestic spending, with especially large cuts for Medicaid, food stamps, and other programs targeted to the very poor.
Mitt Romney has cancelled his joint appearance with wife Ann on The View. Ann Romney will appear alone on the show on Thursday.
Linda McMahon trying hard to thread the needle as a pro-choice Republican in the Connecticut Senate race.
You might think of these four members of Congress from New York as the canaries in the coal mine for the tea party movement.