Editors’ Blog - 2012
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09.24.12 | 6:25 am
Can You Feel The Pain If You Don’t Care?

A very interesting take on Romney’s Plan A and Plan B from TPM Reader DE

I have a different take on the Plan A, Plan B discussion regarding the Romney campaign. I agree with LF that there really is no plan B, but I also think that the Romney campaign miscalibrated or failed to properly execute their own Plan A.

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09.24.12 | 7:55 am
Ryan Moves Left (Sorta)

Paul Ryan has disavowed 2005 comments to the Randian Atlas Society calling Social Security “collectivist”.

09.24.12 | 7:56 am
Feeling the Feminism From This One At 900 Miles

Akin and Gingrich will host a joint press conference today at 12:30 PM.

09.24.12 | 9:41 am
That Tracking Poll Thing

The big picture from the polls over the last week has been the continuation of Obama’s post-convention bounce and a solidification of Obama’s numbers in a host of key swing states. But there’s one other thing we saw last week that deserves mention: the return of the significant discrepancy in how the race looks in the standard polls now being released by a number of polling organizations and how the race looks in the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls. Read More

09.24.12 | 11:08 am
Me and Newt Agree!

Gingrich says GOP will be back to supporting Akin by mid-October.

09.24.12 | 11:49 am
Hard To Keep Up

It’s getting hard to keep up with the number of positions Romney is changing at the moment. The latest is announcing that ER care is the solution for people who don’t have health insurance.

09.24.12 | 12:32 pm
The Crackdown on Laziness

Combating laziness takes center stage as new rationale for voter ID laws.

09.24.12 | 12:38 pm
The Euphemism’s Nose Under the Tent

Top Armed Services Republicans adopt Dems’ code word for new taxes to reduce the deficit.

09.24.12 | 1:49 pm
What Is Going On?

It’s widely known that the ATF is the redheaded stepchild of federal law enforcement, but I’ve not seen anything quite like this before.

09.25.12 | 4:16 am
Big Debate Mitt

To paraphrase my comments from a couple months ago about the vice presidential search, if you’re banking on the blow out debate performance, you’re probably already toast. That said, here’s what debate pros says Mitt Romney needs to do to turn this thing around.