If you’re a political reporter and don’t feel equipped to adjudicate the latest row over Mitt Romney’s tax plan, consider this:
Nobody — no economist, no analyst, no think tank — has been able to make Romney’s tax math work. At least, not without adding heaping quantities of Magic Romney Growth Elixir⢠to the formula, and a lot of hand waving. Romney’s big claim is that he can cut everyone’s taxes by 20 percent, without adding a penny to the deficit, and without reclaiming the lost revenue from the pockets of lower and middle class workers.
Even under generous assumptions, this is likely impossible. Read More
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) lines up to buy a chicken sandwich at Chick-Fil-A to fight Teh Gay.
TPM Reader BC on why the ‘Chick-Fil-A’ Appreciation Day crazy yesterday was no joke …
I just saw your picture of the day and felt it was a good opportunity to express some of my thoughts and feelings about what happened yesterday in regards to Chick-Fil-A appreciation day. I do not think that any of the stories that have been written (at TPM or otherwise) capture, in the slightest bit, how this has effected people within the LGBT community.
PollTracker Editor Kyle Leighton demonstrates the cool new features of Polltracker Mobile, our new iPhone App and gives you a quick how-to. Watch.
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 310, Romney 206 as a new poll nudges North Carolina out of the Toss-Up column toward Favors Romney.
Ryan Reilly says the opponents of Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law are feeling bullish about their odds of prevailing at trial.
If you’re a campaign tracker, be sure the guy in the car you’re following is really the opposing candidate and not a local judge who gets scared he’s being tailed and calls the cops.
First, thanks so much to everyone who’s downloaded PollTracker Mobile today. It’s been a great launch and it’s now #6 in the AppStore among free News Apps. The main question we’ve gotten today and really the only thing that comes close to a real criticism has been: why no Android version? So let me take a moment to explain what our plan is on that front. Read More
Heard about that new ‘voter fraud’ study ballyhooed in conservative media which claims that Democrats are the main perpetrators of vote fraud and that voter ID laws protect rather than disenfranchise minority and elderly voters?
Well, turns out the ‘study’ is a short paper cobbled together from unsubstatianted media reports and the author is a GOP operative who himself had to plead guilty to falsifying documents in the Abramoff scandal.