Fun stats from the new Mason-Dixon poll of Missouri: Half of Todd Akin’s supporters say he should withdraw from the race; a plurality of McCaskill supporters say he should stay in.
The first man to walk on the moon has died at age 82. Here’s the statement from NASA administrator Charles Bolden: Read More
With the Tampa Bay area under a tropical storm warning, the RNC has effectively delayed the start of the Republican National Convention from Monday until Tuesday.
Devo has just released a new single “Don’t Roof Rack Me, Bro! (Seamus Unleashed)“. Available on iTunes.
Reading between the lines in this new New York Times story, it looks like Romney’s birther joke was no accident.
Mitt Romney is heading into his nominating convention with his advisers convinced he needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations.
How many people do you think know that a Romney victory in November would almost certainly lead to Medicare becoming a voucher program?
Yesterday I asked how many people knew that a Romney victory would likely lead to Medicare becoming a voucher program. I think we have our answer. Two polls have come out over the last 24 hours showing the Romney-Ryan ticket either tied or ahead of Obama-Biden on the issue of Medicare. ABC/Wapo and CNN.
This week we’re joined by Time Magazine’s Michael Grunwald who will be discussing the Obama Stimulus Bill and a lot you probably don’t know about it along with his new book The New New Deal.
Hi, everyone. I’m Michael Grunwald from TIME Magazine, and Josh has generously invited me to blog this week about my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It’s the story of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, which–wait, don’t click away!–was one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in modern history. The much-mocked Failed-Stimulus was actually a remarkable success. It was also the purest distillation of what Obama meant by change. And the story of the stimulus is the best way to understand the president, his policies, his approach to politics, his achievements, and his problems marketing those achievements in a city that’s gone bonkers. It’s also the best way to understand his enemies; The New New Deal documents how Republican leaders secretly devised their strategy of all-out obstructionism before he even took office. Read More