Aug 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Gallup: PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of voters in key 2012 election swing states say they are not better off than they were four years ago; 40% say they are better off. Swing-state voters' assessments of their situation compared with 2008 have varied little since last fall. The results are based on the latest USA Today/Gallup Swing ...
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Aug 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(BIG GOVERNMENT) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who has accused Mitt Romney of not paying taxes by citing mysterious anonymous sources, today sent an e-mail on behalf of the Obama campaign asking supporters to sign a petition to urge Romney to release his tax returns. “Friday morning, I sent a letter to Mitt Romney's ...
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Aug 20, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(BIG GOVERNMENT) On a beautiful August day when most people are enjoying the weather and leisure time, self-made man Al Letizio organized a protest against the President of the United States. This New Hampshire businessman set up signage outside his business to let Mr. Obama know that in America, the free market still works and ...
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CBS: Grover Norquist says the president "didn't keep his word when he said he wouldn't raise taxes" on lower income families, and points to tax increases within the Affordable Care Act as evidence.
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson's editorial in Newsweek/The Daily Beast: I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther ...
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Mediaite: Cutter then claimed that the Priorities USA ad doesn’t blame Romney for the death of Soptic’s wife: “If it did, it’s unfair. But I don’t think that’s what it did.”
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bush pushed the idea in 2005. In his 2010 "Road Map for America's ...
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Metromix Des Moines) Are you ready for some political commentary? Country legend Hank Williams Jr. played to a crowd of nearly 8,500 at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand Friday night. You may recall, criticism of President Barack Obama on a Fox News program last year led to ESPN dropping Williams’ “Monday Night Football” theme song after ...
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Aug 19, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Beltway Confidential: President Obama regards the week of the Republican convention as “precious time” to campaign, his spokeswoman told reporters to explain why he will not “lay low” that week, as is customary for incumbent presidents. “We know that this is a close election and we need to compete for every vote that ...
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Aug 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The New York Times: “We have plenty of time for big rallies,” a campaign spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said between the rallies on Thursday. “Our focus right now is on exciting our supporters and winning over undecided voters and the smaller and medium-size events are the best venue to accomplish that because the ...
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