Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* Telegraphing which of Mitt Romney's vulnerabilities it finds most interesting, the Obama campaign released an infographic yesterday, highlighting all of the Republican's known off-shore bank accounts, including the Cayman Islands.
* Romney's super PAC, Restore Our Future, is making a $3.7 million ad buy in nine 2012 battleground states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, and New Hampshire. It's unclear which specific ad will be aired.
* Speaking of swing states, Public Policy Polling shows President Obama leading Romney in Virginia by eight points, 51% to 43%. Adding Virginia Gov. Bob "Ultrasound" McDonnell to the GOP ticket does not help narrow the gap at all.
* Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has raised an astonishing amount of money for his recall election, but two-thirds of the funds have come from outside the state.
* Romney frequently boasts about his record on taxes during his one term in office, but to deal with a deficit, he raised all kinds of fees in Massachusetts.
* In West Virginia, a new statewide poll shows the two Democratic incumbents -- Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin -- are likely to cruise to easy wins in November.
* And with Newt Gingrich finally set to give up the presidential race and endorse Romney, the Obama campaign put together a video highlighting some of Gingrich's recent comments on the candidate he now supports.
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Here is a look at the billionaire donors contributing to one of Mitt Romney's Super PACs:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2012/02/billionaire-republicans-who-will.html
For the month of January 2012, Restore Our Future raised an average of $213,000 per day, mainly from billionaires.
So much for populist politics.
I got to like Newt for 1 minute and 27 seconds.
Are we sure that Joe Manchin is a Democrat? If there's a picture next to the term "DINO" in the political dictionary, it will be Manchin's.
This may be fun for the committed, but I doubt such factual reminders will sway too many independent voters. By now, we all know how the majority of party politicians are. This kind of flip-floppery has become expected and acceptable conduct -and serves only to perpetuate the non-voter sentiment -What's the point?
Re: the new Newt ad from the Obama Campaign
If the Obama campaign wants to run ads of Mitt's then-rivals-now-endorsers, the GOP's got more where that came from. I guess during the War of Egos, otherwise known as the GOP primary, none of the candidates thought all their anti-Mitt diatribes would come back to roost. But FWIW, they'll probably lose no sleep if the Mitt Romney Presidency never happens. If anything Newt, Santorum, Bachmann, etc. will cackle themselves silly when Mitt gets creamed...
Telegraphing which of Mitt Romney's vulnerabilities it finds most interesting, the Obama campaign released an infographic yesterday, highlighting all of the Republican's known off-shore bank accounts, including the Cayman Islands.
And, with only 1 year and an estimate, the number of unknown offshore accounts is undoubtably much, much higher. Release the 20 years of returns, Mittens!
Romney frequently boasts about his record on taxes during his one term in office, but to deal with a deficit, he raised all kinds of fees in Massachusetts.
In the fantasy world of republicans, fees are not taxes and do not raise revenues. Little George Bush's first budget director is now the governor of Indiana (on a platform of being fiscally responsible) and for him taxes raised do not count as taxes raised because he says that they were not taxes. Plus, lots & lots of fees raised.
In the world of repubicans, if you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, it becomes the truth!
The GOP usually does regimental politics very well, but after the wingnut circus this year, they quite deserve what they are left with. But, never-mind the ample infighting that is now fodder for political ads, the GOP's policies, AS-USUAL, are just plain BAD. Bad for small business, bad for workers, bad for minority groups, bad for the environment, bad for children, bad for national security, bad for human rights, bad for the economy, ...