It looks like Labor, the key mover in the recall battle against Wisconsin’s Gov. Walker, is now in an internal battle in the Democratic primary over who will face him.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY): Mitch McConnell “has a considerable knack for being scrupulously accurate and rarely honest.”
As noted this morning, Wednesday April 11th is day one of the general election. But there are things I’m seeing that tell me that Mitt Romney is kicking off the campaign in a telling defensive posture. What I mean is that on various fronts, Romney is kicking off within Obama’s campaign narrative. He’s living in Obama’s world, playing on his turf. Read More
Brian Beutler traces the political and policy fault lines on entitlement programs represented by yesterday’s report from the conservative Mercatus Institute.
Colleagues of troubled Arizona Rep. Daniel Patterson say he’s not getting a fair shake in the court of public opinion — just like George Zimmerman.
The general election begins with Mitt Romney reaching out to women and Latinos.
I mentioned this morning that Mitt Romney’s campaign was getting off to a shaky start on day one of the general election campaign by operating entirely within President Obama’s campaign narrative, playing on Obama’s turf. And already today we’ve had another example — beyond pure messaging — why this is a problem. The campaign scheduled a press call today to walk their ‘Obama’s War Against Women’ through with reporters. But it became clear pretty quickly they really hadn’t thought through quite what that meant beyond a slogan. Read our report on the call here. That’s another danger of living inside your opponent’s campaign story.
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Behold the ultimate Santorum wrap-up/mashup video reel.
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