Mitt Romney’s trip abroad appears to be off to a smashing start. As a number of TPM Readers flagged to us last night Romney managed to insult his British hosts, knocking their management of the Summer Olympics in comparison to his run with the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002.
Talking to Brian Williams last night, Romney opined … Read More
David Cameron, responding to Mitt Romney’s Olympic critique: “Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”
A knowledgable source at the Daily Telegraph confirmed to me this morning that Romney advisor Nile Gardiner’s denial (that he was the source of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ comment) was in fact accurate. See my piece on this subject from last night.
The percentage of registered voters who think President Obama is a Christian is edging toward 50 percent, an 11-point increase from August 2010, but still short of the 55 percent who thought so in October 2008, according to a new poll from Pew. But the percent who think he is Muslim has declined by just 2 percentage points in the last two years, down to 17 percent. The dreaded “don’t know” answer is down 10 percentage points over that time frame.
To end of day, the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is now whipping up a crowd of 60,000 in Hyde Park by mocking Mitt Romney.
British press gives its take on Mitt’s awesome day in the UK.
During and after yesterday’s big Senate tax vote, I noticed some observers were pretty quick to diminish the magnitude of what transpired, and what Harry Reid managed to accomplish. That wasn’t exactly a widely shared sentiment, but common enough that I think it’s worth breaking down exactly why it wasn’t a predictable development, and why it matters. Read More
Sympathy today for the adviser(s) at Romney HQ in Boston who thought the foreign trip was a bad idea to begin with because anything that takes the attention off the economy is a miscalculation. If I were in the same office with them, I might quietly hide sharp objects, bound briefing books, and anything else that could be used as a weapon.