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:
* A federal appeals court dealt a blow to Florida Gov. Rick Scott's (R) efforts to sharply narrow the early-voting window in parts of the state.
* Priorities USA Action, the Democratic super PAC, released a new ad this morning hitting Mitt Romney over his secret tax returns.
* Tricia highlighted the new Obama campaign ad on the Republican Medicare plan, and I wanted to add that the spot will air in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, and Nevada.
* The latest CNN poll shows President Obama's lead over Romney in Wisconsin at only four points, 49% to 45%.
* The Republican National Committee raised $37.7 million in July, its best month ever. The Romney-Ryan ticket, meanwhile, claims to have raised $10 million just this week.
* On a related note, campaign spending on broadcast ads has already topped $500 million this cycle, roughly matching the total spent in the entire 2008 general election.
* Alabama Democrats only have one candidate who qualified to run against Roy Moore, the disgraced former Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, who's trying to make a comeback. However, the Democratic, Harry Lyon, appears to be even more ridiculous than Moore, and the state Dems want to disqualify him as a candidate.
* A national USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that eligible voters who don't intend to participate favor Obama over Romney by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
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voters who don't intend to participate
I have to laugh at this poll, if they don't intend to participate, WhatTF are they doing here and WhoTF cares?!
An R-money Presidency will destroy the middle class, Medicare, Social Security, etc..
What are the tea-tards smoking if they vote for this clown? Must be bath salts..
That's critical information for the Obama campaign, and for the Romney campaign as well. Romney/Ryan don't want to push those people into voting, and Obama/Biden want to GOtV with those same people.
Given how both campaigns have been conducting themselves, I would imagine that many of those Democratic voters who don't plan to vote right now will decide to vote after the debates and the conventions.
Obama knows where his bread is buttered: he needs boots on the ground knocking on doors. Romney will just continue to lie and have Super PACs spend millions on negative ads.
But, it won't win him the election. I've called it before: Romney will get no more than 46% of the popular vote. You can bank on it.
Indeed. I am rather annoyed that I have inadvertently been forced to dedicate brain cells to learning the presidential preferences of idiots who are registered to vote, have a preference but won't vote. It's worse than finding out something about a Kardashian. No, wait, worse, because I never remember anything I read about a Kardashian, but since this piece of idiotriva touches something I'm interested in, it's stuck there forever.
Seems to me that, by definition, "voters who don't intend to participate"...
aren't voters.
;-)
Ignored.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iILluilFaM&feature=plcp
Willard says that Ryan and his plan are the same.
ADMINZ:Be a little more respectful ,that's Bishop Willard of Mormon fame.
Folks - especially those of you in swing states - we need to do whatever we can to get those "unlikely" voters to get off the sidelines. They may be somewhat disenchanted with the process or the gridlock, or previous results, but if they do nothing, we may end up with the 2010 vote all over again. And that would lead to the 2008 economy all over again.
Find your local Obama Field Office, and volunteer to help convince people how important this election is to their own future, how disastrous a Romney/Ryan administration would be, and how Democrats downticket need their help. If they can vote early or vote by mail more easily than going to the polls on Nov. 5, get them to do that. If they're being disenfranchised by new voting laws, don't let them give up; help them get what they need.
Too many Dems stayed on the sidelines in 2010 and we've been paying for it ever since.
Mitt's taxes were wrong in 2002 and he paid up. That is the reason we need his tax returns from 2002 to 2012 because he may have made a small mistake on his taxes through those years. I don't think he would cheat the IRS, he's not a crook if he pays up fast. You don't want a person that cheats on his taxes making the laws.
Does anyone know why they say they won't vote? Are they really registered? If registered, why not vote? It would be instructive to hear why.
Mike Turzai in the bathroom.
"Voter ID which will allow Governor Romney to... Why couldn't I just have kept my mouth shut after the voter ID part? The national media has already used up half of my 15 minutes.
It took 18 months of practicing my Sherrod Brown voice in front of the mirror so I could finally ditch that Sacha Baron Cohen voice.
Well, lets try it again without that other part. Voter ID, which will allow GREAT SUCCESS... Aw, man!"
So... if this poll is to be believed, and if the election were held today... in addition to a lot of voters being very surprised, President Obama would still win in Wisconsin? Awesome!
;-)
Caption the still photo with heart drawn around these two.
We are gonna get rich off of this! Oh right, we already ARE rich!
I know. Way too many pictures of a love struck Romney gazing at Ryan like he's an offshore tax shelter...I think Mitt's VP choice was as shallow as the rest of his stances, he went for looks instead of brains.
"Avoidance of tax is American"
Said Lindsey, a famous repatrican
For a country in need
Won't trump corporate greed
With appropriate usage of lanolin.
The 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments to the US Constitution all deal with the right to vote. Top that off with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and you will discover what brand of soft and absorbent tissue Republican controlled state legislatures prefer over other brands.
And if you wonder why the GOP has no shame in this regard. Just watch them using their mothers and grandmothers as policy shills in the slimy new ads running across the country. "I love you Mom."
Well it makes sense, he wouldn't lie to his mother so he must be telling the truth. Yep, got my vote!