More on the Romney campaign’s internal polling
Romney internal polling–myopia rather than rose-colored glasses I don’t call these post-mortems, but in this election follow-up, The New Republic has disclosed some useful information. The gist is that Mitt Romney’s campaign thought it was likely to win because internal polling at the end said so. The Romney team’s own last-minute projections for six key [...]
The returning issue of Romney’s tax returns
The returning issue of Romney’s tax returns Tax returns are not trivial In the land of abundance, the legal obligations of citizenship rest lightly for most Americans. With no military draft or compulsory youth service, the United States actually requires little in the way of civic obligation–that is, obligation imposed by law and justice. Jury [...]
Positive harbingers for Obama-Biden
Pre-election, looking warmer 2012 harbingers Yet another positive harbinger for the election, from a Democratic and democratic perspective: Citigroup’s CEO just abruptly resigned. Wall Street this fall did a little quiet house-cleaning. Doesn’t suggest that insiders see a wildly lenient Romney-Ryan ticket winning. Rep. Paul Ryan doesn’t seem to see that in his crystal ball, [...]
Candidate Romney on YouTube
YouTube, we are here Some 2012 unforgettable Romney YouTube moments We may live in an age of information overload. But overload or no, surely the string of special moments loosed like chemical by-products by the Romney campaign will not soon be forgotten. Just for fun, if nothing else–here they are, courtesy of YouTube, with slight [...]
More in the Romney tax returns
More on those tax returns Following up on those Friday-release Romney tax returns, a few quick observations Mitt and Ann Romney’s IRS tax return for 2011 is posted here. For the record, what has not been revealed by Romney is more interesting than what has been. Still, there are some items of interest in the [...]
The Republican Party’s legitimate difficulties with Todd Akin, part 2
The Republican Party’s legitimate difficulties with Todd Akin, part 2 What Todd Akin did, with his ill-timed comments, was to illuminate 1) the draconian hard-right stand against abortions. This is the no-exceptions position that would prevent terminating a pregnancy for an eleven-year-old girl sexually abused by her stepfather. (The medical case just referred to [...]
Republican Party’s legitimate difficulty over Todd Akin
Republican Party’s legitimate difficulty over Todd Akin: Re-cap and overview, part 1 Returning to the topic of Rep. Todd Akin’s senate race in Missouri, the real sticking point for Republican Party movers and shakers is not Akin’s mistaken science, his comforting notion that a woman’s body will ward off pregnancy in a sexual assault. [...]
Akin, Ryan still in their respective races
On eve of GOP convention, Todd Akin, Paul Ryan still running for Congress The long-awaited Republican National Convention has opened in Tampa in attenuated fashion, and not much is new. Missouri senate nominee Todd Akin is still in the race, dousing recently aroused hope that he would take himself out with some increasingly defiant pronouncements [...]
Mary Matalin says GOP will fund a write-in against Todd Akin in Missouri
Election 2012: Mary Matalin says GOP will fund a write-in against Todd Akin in Missouri Admittedly this is the kind of thing that could change in another hour. As of now, however, GOP top strategist Mary Matalin is saying something pretty crisp about Rep. Todd Akin’s senate race. After dismissing Akin’s chances of getting funding [...]
More on Mitt Romney’s tax returns, more ties with the Bushes
More reasons for Mitt Romney to release tax returns, or maybe another reason why he hasn’t released his tax returns Ties with Team Bush, part 1 To be clear, the foremost reason why a candidate for the White House should release financial records is principle. The public has a right to know of any [...]
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