The new ABC/WaPo polls show that support for ‘Obamacare’ went from 53%-39% against in April to 47% to 47% today.
Ed Rollins: GOP needs to be less old, fat and white. Watch.
Carl Franzen on Amtrak’s new(ish) plan for 220-m.p.h. high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor.
Mitt Romney falls back on the “blind trust” defense to explain his Bermuda and Caymans holdings.
TPM Reader CG:
First, I’d be working the words “blind trust” into every anti-Romney attack ad imaginable, and not just in reference to his actual blind trust.
Second, what, you don’t think “I have craploads of money in the Caribbean that I don’t even look after!” is going to work in down economic times?
Tomorrow we’re officially releasing the new and totally revamped PollTracker for the 2012 election. But this morning I wanted to give you a sneak preview of PollTracker mobile, a new iPhone app we’re releasing later this month.
If you’re a politics junkie, you’ll want to download this baby. In the palm of your hand, every presidential, congressional and gubernatorial poll in the country. The PollTracker average of Romney’s approval rating? The current horse race average? The latest presidential poll from Ohio? How about the Ohio Senate race? All just two clicks away. Read More
A central element of the 2012 campaign cycle has become just when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital. The Romney campaign says he left in early 1999 — in time to get him off the hook for some controversial investments. Factcheck.org backs up Mitt while David Corn and the Obama campaign have brought forward numerous pieces of documentary evidence indicating he didn’t leave until a couple years later.
Now here’s even more evidence that he didn’t leave in 1999 as he now claims. Read More
Attorney General Holder calls new voter ID laws “poll taxes.”
Intent is the same; mechanism is the same. They may be the same.
Does the Obama tax proposal target small businesses, as Republicans have claimed for two years? Yes, totally — if by target you mean it affects roughly 3 percent of them.