TPM Reader CN thinks President Obama just gave away the election …
I wish I could agree with reader WB. Most of me is absolutely thrilled to see Obama boldly step forward to the right side of history. But I also have this sinking feeling: the feeling that Obama just handed the election to Romney.
TPMPolltracker guru Kyle Leighton debuts our new video series “Crosstabs”. He goes deep into the numbers to give you a clearer (but never boring) picture of what’s really happening in Campaign 2012.
TPM’s David Taintor on how President Obama’s big interview with ABC came down.
Romney gets impatient for interviewer to ask him questions about “issues of significance” after questions about gay marriage, the DREAM Act and medical marijuana.
The most gleeful and the most bitter reactions to Obama’s same sex marriage shift.
TPM Reader BT on that Mitt video …
Did you notice that each of these things that Mitt got testy about are issues important to young people? The entirety of this election is generational, with racial and cultural layers built over it. And the Ryan budget is the keystone of that: make everybody under 54 pay full Medicare for everybody over and then cut them off.
Generational warfare is the core animating force of our politics.
Barney Frank: “Look, I note that this happens just a couple months before my own marriage. And it makes me very happy both because he’s doing it and because it confirms that we are on the verge of winning this fight within 10 years.”
Obama: Biden “got out a little over his skis” on same sex marriage.
Romney: “Back in high school I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize.”
He further said: “I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s.”
Earlier Romney, through spokespeople, had said he didn’t remember the incidents.
Amazing look at the role of religion in the breakdown of voting choices.