For Mitt Romney, very little changed today. He can continue to promise in his stump speech to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which President Obama will probably continue to remind people was largely modeled after Romney’s own Massachusetts health care reform. Romney is going to have to come up with some kind of an alternative […]
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President Obama Brags About Being Outspent
In case you’ve tuned out your Obama fundraising e-mails, you should pay attention to this one. It’s a highly unusual e-mail for a campaign to be sending. I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far. I’m not just talking […]
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Amanda Fritz, Forced into Runoff, Raises Donation Limit to $250
A tipster attending Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s Gilt Club campaign re-launch party last night shared some interesting news: Fritz—who was dramatically outraised by State Representative Mary Nolan while limiting contributions to $50—has decided to up her limit to $250. Fritz has confirmed that change, and her website has already been updated with the new number. Yesterday, […]
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Here Are Three Stories You Probably Won’t Read About Mitt Romney
1. The Nation published a great blog post about how Mitt Romney’s recent bus tour through Wisconsin and Iowa has cautiously skipped over towns that are still hurting from Bain Capital-related job losses. Workers at one factory wanted Romney to come and see how the plant had been gutted by Bain shipping jobs to China. […]
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Hales Issues Pledge to Limit Campaign Contributions
Hales: “We talked. This is action.” Mayoral candidate Charlie Hales, in what his campaign billed as a “game-changing” announcement, promised today to limit campaign contributions in his November runoff race against Jefferson Smith to no more than $600 per donor, while also refusing out-of-state donations and vowing not to do any self-funding either. “I’ve thought […]
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Gay Republican Group Endorses Romney
Mitt Romney won’t fight for gay people. He’s against gay marriage, he’s said that he will allow DADT to stand if he becomes president though he wasn’t “comfortable” with it, and he won’t stand up for his gay employees when they are targeted by religious conservative groups. But it looks like gay Republicans will fight […]
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Stephen Colbert on Mitt Romney’s Fancy Dancing Horse
Mitt Romney, who continually calls Barack Obama out of touch with the average American, owns a dancing horse named Rafalka that is going to compete in the Olympics. Stephen Colbert’s piece on it last night was great: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I bet this is the […]
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Required Reading for Pansy-Assed Dems
Frank Rich’s brilliant piece on negative campaign ads—their history, their effectiveness, and their absolute necessity if Obama wants to win reelection—is required reading for all the weak-kneed, pansy-assed, hand-wringers in the media and the Democratic party: Barack Obama has made his mistakes as a politician and as a president, but here is one thing he […]
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“You Might Be Screwed”: Excerpts from Jefferson Smith’s U of O Commencement Speech
Amanda Caffal I’m not going to post the whole thing, but we got a copy of the speech that mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith gave to the University of Oregon’s class of 2012 yesterday morning. But some of it’s definitely worth sharing. The message? Graduates should embrace the lousy economy, with its paucity of high-paying, ego-boosting […]
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Mitt Romney Learns About Touch-Screen Technology
Mitt Romney visited Pennsylvania chain Wawa and ordered a sandwich, and it BLEW HIS MOTHERFUCKIN’ MIND. If I may digress for a moment: I know the last three weeks have been bad for Democrats. Polls look wonky and mistakes keep happening and the news is all bad. But I do think that one thing is […]
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Rick Santorum Is Running Around in His Mitt Romney Skin-Suit Again
Mitt Romney’s plan to save the American economy involves controlling what everyone does with their pants-regions, Talking Points Memo says: “Familes are an important source of strength for the nation,” Romney told the crowd. “Rick Santorum is fond of reminding us of the study that was carried out by the Brookings Institution where they looked […]
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They All Look Alike…
…to the RNC: In an effort to court Latino voters, the RNC’s Spanish-language outreach website installed a prominent photo of adorable Latino children as its main image. Or at least that’s what the RNC thought the photo depicted. It turns out the kids aren’t Latino at all. In an embarrassing mix-up, US News and World […]