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:
* Despite reports that his critics are splintering, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) hasn't won his recall race just yet. The Greater Wisconsin Political Fund unveiled this new ad yesterday, targeting the governor over job numbers.
* Priorities USA, a super PAC supporting President Obama, has struggled so badly to raise money, it's now likely Republicans will have the overall financial edge at the national level this year.
* On a related note, Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, which appears to have a limitless well of cash, announced a new $9.7 million ad buy, running anti-Obama attack ads in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
* Following the recent unpleasantness in West Virginia, Democrats are also concerned that President Obama may not fare well in today's Arkansas Democratic presidential primary.
* Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) not only wants to exclude himself from VP speculation, he said yesterday, "If I thought that call was coming, I would disconnect the phone."
* I'm not sure why anyone would bother polling in these states, but new surveys show Mitt Romney leading Obama by wide margins in Texas and Oklahoma.
* In Utah, where Sen. Orrin Hatch still has to win a Republican primary, GOP challenger Dan Liljenquist is slamming the six-term incumbent for his reluctance to participate in multiple debates.
* And in 2016 news, it's hardly a secret that Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) intends to run for president in four years, and next week, he'll make his first stop in New Hampshire.
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There is one other point with these corporate vultures and rapists that they did and all in order to make more money. Plenty of people were laid off, but the people left had their wages frozen for years and you had to work like a dog to keep up, since they left you under shafted. This left people under stress and struggling just to keep things going and profitable, especially when you had very little available help. And in many cases one of the things that lead to these companies going bankrupt was because people trying to keep up only were left to put out something too fast and it was usually junk or a waste of time. I know Romney’s type too well and he is nothing but the worst thing around.
need to do a correction ... under shafted ... should be corrected to ... under staffed.
Dems are really setting themselves up for doom. Between corporate money and voter suppression (and traitors like Booker), November could really be ugly.
Truth in advertising is all I ask of Ham Loaf
I wonder if Maddow will talk about a recent Salon article saying that executives at Bain donate more to Democrats than Republicans.
Steve I've been a reader for long time way back to the Carpetbagger days. You must be smoking the GE corp BS or someone told you to highlight that crap about Wisconsin. The Dems in Wisconsin are not 'splintered'. The fact that the article came fromTime, a corporate POS source of news is a good reason to not believe any of the 'news'. Read ANY thing from other sources to see this article was full of crap. I know it is against GE policy to even think that KOS exists but a quick read there would have clued you in to reality.
It is said when life gives you lemon, make lemonade. Booker got some lemon on Obama and hopefully the president makes good lemonade.
The message is, Romney as a Financier versus Romney as an Economist. Bain as a financial success is good (even though the reported 78% is way below a SIX SIGMA good grade). The question is, whether Romney's financial strategy, molded with Paul Ryan's economic philosophy, better for America.