Why President Obama is making the auto bailout the centerpiece of his campaign.
So why has Mitt Romney moved into a tie with the President? I explain in today’s edition of The Setup. Read More
At live event, Romney doesn’t dispute questioners suggestion that President Obama should be tried for treason. Watch the video.
A bit later, in response to reporters’ questions, he said “of course” he doesn’t believe the president should be tried for treason.
Pressure builds for Obama to hurry up and evolve on marriage equality.
Something very weird just happened on the Israeli political scene. Or perhaps it’s better to say, something even weirder than usual.
Israel was in the midst of preparing for new elections in September, ones called by Prime Minister Netanyahu from a position of relative strength and ones that showed every sign of returning him to the Prime Minister’s office, quite possibly with a more stable majority. Read More
Santorum releases 11 pm email endorsing Mitt Romney.
(Bonus title with biblical allusion.)
Big question for November: will big drop offs in black and Hispanic voter registration doom Obama?
Maybe not as much as the numbers suggest.
Romney tells Cleveland TV station: “I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.” Watch.
It ain’t that often that a potent political attack happens to be true both in the deep sense of substance and in the often more important sense of word play. President Obama took a big gamble continuing and upping the massive auto industry bailout that began fitfully under President Bush. The fact that Mitt Romney wrote a oped at the deadline with the jarring headline “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” is probably enough to skewer him in the court of 30-second ads and speech gotcha lines. Read More