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President Obama Should Seize the High Ground

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas Friedman - May. 27 (Opinion) - President Obama has quite a record of accomplishment to run on for re-election if he would only run on it. During a recent discussion in Seattle with a group of educators, one of them surprised me when she pointed out that even though their state did not win President Obama’s education “Race to the Top,” that program was critical in spurring education reform in Washington State. As I listened to her analysis, the thought occurred to me: I wonder how Barack Obama would do if he ran for president as himself. ... How he would do if he ran for re-election on all the things he’s accomplished but rarely speaks about.

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The President's Last Line of Defense

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - May. 26 (News Analysis) - The new round of national and state surveys this week generally showing President Obama clinging to a tenuous advantage over Republican Mitt Romney reinforce the conclusion that socially liberal, upscale white women may stand as the president's indispensable line of defense in his struggle for reelection. Both the national ABC/Washington Post survey released earlier this week, and the NBC/Marist Polls released Thursday in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida show Obama retaining preponderant support among minority voters who were critical to his 2008 victory. Conversely, in almost all of the surveys, Obama faces a consistent pattern of erosion from his already meager 2008 levels of support among whites without a college education.

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Bill Maher Fights Birthers With 'Wifers'

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - May. 26 (Comedy News) - Maher introduced the concept of "Wiferism," the belief that Romney is a secret polygamist. Using classic "Birther" rhetoric, he showed just how easy it is to create a controversy out of nothing:

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Romney Embraces Growth, Leaving Austerity To Europe

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Ward - May. 19 (Opinion) - Austerity is out. Growth is in. And Mitt Romney's campaign has taken notice. Politicians in Europe and in President Barack Obama's administration can't get enough of the G word these days. "Growth must be a priority, at the same time as we put in place some fiscal compact to improve our finances," said the new French President Francois Hollande, during a visit with Obama in the Oval Office on Friday.

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Mitt Romney's flip-flops

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair , Louis Jacobson - May. 18 (Fact Check) - For the 2012 presidential campaign, we're using the Flip O-Meter to assess the statements of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This article includes links to the Flip-O-Meter items we've published on Romney. We'll update it as we publish more in the future.

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tom Raum - May. 16 (News Analysis) - When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set...

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JPMorgan Chase’s $2 Billion Loss

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - May. 13 (Editorial) - The lesson of JPMorgan’s stunning $2 billion trading loss is that the banks haven’t learned their lesson, and neither have the politicians. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, can be clear as a bell when he denounces financial reform. But on an emergency conference call with analysts on Thursday to announce the bank’s stunning $2 billion trading loss, his message was frustratingly vague.

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Obama says Romney would cut his own taxes while raising others’

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - May. 13 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is the anti-Robin Hood. In a campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012, Obama said the Romney's economic plan would raise taxes for millions of low-income Americans while cutting them for the wealthy.

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Mitt Romney, the Unlikable Presidential Candidate

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Michael Tomasky - May. 13 (Opinion) - It’s been a long time since the country elected a man as personally unappealing as Mitt Romney. Will Americans overlook their deeply held conviction that he’s a jerk? Very few votes are going to be cast on the basis of what Mitt Romney did or didn’t do to John Lauber in 1965. So that, per se, isn’t Romney’s problem. But this is: The story lands as another brick on pile of evidence amassing that he’s just a disagreeable human being. A few days ago I wrote about Barack Obama’s biggest problem, which is that despite all the many areas in which Americans rate him higher than Romney, the one on which they give Romney the edge happens to be pretty important: handling the economy. Now we get to Romney’s biggest problem. The likability factor. He ain’t got it. And he ain’t got much of a way to get it.

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Stewart Analyzes The Evolution Of Fox News' Gay Rights Coverage

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 11 (Comedy News) - This issue is just racism 2.0 and it aligns perfectly with the GOP agenda of rich white males. Justtheobvious: This issue is just racism 2.0 and it aligns perfectly Bingo ! They already have the middle class and poor on their 'fiscal' oppression list. So

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Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jason Horowitz - May. 10 (Special Report) - Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

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Day After Obama Marriage Equality Move, Story Emerges of Teenage Romney Tackling, Cutting Hair of Boy He Believed to Be Gay

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lauren Kelley - May. 10 (News Report) - The Post reports that five former classmates of Romney's recalled the incident independently. The former classmates, who span the political spectrum, called the act "vicious," "senseless," and "idiotic," among other things. One of the classmates, David Seed, ran into Lauber three decades later at an airport and apologized for not doing more to help him that day in 1965. Lauber, who has since died, reportedly told Seed, "It was horrible....It’s something I have thought about a lot since then." Predictably, the Romney camp is in denial mode.

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Bernanke Gets 75% Approval From Investors in Global Poll

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:36:00 -0700

Bloomberg - May. 10 - Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, delivers his semi-annual monetary policy report to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2012. Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, delivers his semi-annual

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Is US a model for austerity-wary Europe?

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Laurent Belsie - May. 05 (News Analysis) - America's poor jobs report has rattled world markets. Germany's DAX index fell 2 percent Friday. Wall Street saw its worst week of the year, as slowing job growth stoked fears that recovery in the United States is faltering. Last month, the economy added only 115,000 jobs.

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Obama launches campaign against Romney, but his real opponent is the economy

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Balz - May. 05 (Opinion) - The president took on Mitt Romney as he formally launched his reelection campaign, but the former Massachusetts governor won’t be Obama’s most stubborn rival.

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Checking Romney's secret weapon: Infographics

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Apr. 26 (Fact Check) - As he struggles to overcome deficits among key demographic groups, Mitt Romney is consistently wielding one weapon: "infographics" chock full of statistics that seek to undermine Pres

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How Long Can Romney Keep Quiet About His Mormonism While He Panders to Evangelicals?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Posner - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - This transparent pandering is clearly aimed at the conservative evangelicals and Catholics he needs to energize in November, whose approval — and enthusiasm — is essential for a Republican presidential candidate to win. While Romney obviously doesn’t need to do much pandering to win over conservative Mormons, voters surely wonder: Once he brings up religion, where does his Mormonism fit?

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Amnesia Candidate

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - Does the Romney campaign really expect Americans to blame President Obama for his predecessor’s policy failure?

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Mitt plays the victim card

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Reid J. Epstein - Apr. 22 (News Analysis) - Meet Mitt Romney the victim. And that may be a good thing for his campaign. Following the still-rippling kerfuffle over Hilary Rosen’s comments that Ann Romney “hasn’t worked a day in her life,” Romney is portraying himself as the victim of the liberal media.

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Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Andy Baio - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - I don’t watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In 2008, I was hooked on one drug for my daily fix: Memeorandum, a completely automated aggregator that surfaces popular stories from political news sites, often within minutes.

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Phony Mommy Wars

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Apr. 18 (Opinion) - It turns out Mitt and Ann have even more in common than we thought. Both can make unforced errors.

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Mitt Romney's poor judgment is undermining his candidacy

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - Apr. 15 - Finally, Obama's opponent has been confirmed, but can the Republican nominee mount an effective challenge? I doubt you will ever find a politician more desperate to believe Nietzsche's aphorism that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger than Mitt Romney. With former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum announcing that he is suspending his presidential campaign, it ensures what many political observers have assumed for quite some time – that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president this autumn. Only 26 other men have achieved this goal, so congratulations to Romney are in order. But a larger view of Romney's political situation takes some of the bloom off this particular rose. Have the past 12 months of campaigning – while certainly not killing him – really made Romney stronger? So far the evidence is not very good. Only 34% of Americans have a positive view of Romney, which makes him at this point in the presidential campaign one of the least popular presumptive ...

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Tax Tips with Mitt

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - Millions of Americans will spend part of this upcoming weekend trying to navigate tax preparation software or filling out the actual paper forms to file their income tax returns before the Tuesday deadline. For those wishing they could pay less tax, outlined below are some tax planning ideas taken from a review of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

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In Martin death, no calls for gun control

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:26:00 -0700

The Politico - By James Hohmann - Apr. 13 - ST. LOUIS —Despite an arrest this week in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, new gun-control measures aren’t even being debated in Washington. Mitt Romney plans to address the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association on Friday afternoon, and t

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Obama: Buffett rule about the future

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:44:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jennifer Epstein - Apr. 10 - President Barack Obama laid out a case for the Buffett rule Tuesday that what’s at stake isn’t just fairness — it’s the future. The president made the pitch in a campaign-style speech to students at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, connecting i

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