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:
* The Obama campaign released a rather brutal new ad this morning, connecting Mitt Romney's "47 percent" problem to his tax-return problem. This is the first Obama ad to make use of the secretly-recorded video.
* The Romney campaign released a new ad of its own, accusing President Obama of refusing to "stand up to China." The spot comes a week after the Obama administration filed its seventh case against China at the World Trade Organization.
* A new Politico/GWU Battleground poll shows Obama leading Romney nationally by three points, 50% to 47%.
* In Ohio, a new Ohio Newspaper Organization poll shows Obama up by five over Romney, 51% to 46%. The same poll shows Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) leading Josh Mandel (R) by seven, 52% to 45%.
* In Colorado, PPP's latest gives Obama a six-point advantage, 51% to 45%. A few weeks ago, PPP found the president's lead at only three points in Colorado.
* In Florida, PPP found Obama with a four-point lead, 50% to 46%, while a Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll shows the president's lead at only one point, 48% to 47%.
* The latter also found Sen. Bill Nelson (D) with an eight-point lead over Rep. Connie Mack IV (R), 48% to 40%.
* The Romney campaign is launching another bus tour of Ohio today. He'll be followed by former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who'll make stops in the same cities.
* In Massachusetts, Sen. Scott Brown (R) continues to be preoccupied with Elizabeth Warren's (D) ethnic background, launching another attack ad on the subject.
* And in Montana, the latest Mason-Dixon poll shows Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) leading incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D) by three points, 48% to 45%.
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That ad is the bomb! Rmoney is so going to lose and I hope it spreads and the GOP loses it's collective ass! Wake up *Amercia, or whatever your name is! Love the poll data with Rmoney at 47%, the irony is not lost!
Obama's ad is great.
Yesterday I heard Bay Buchanan claim over and over that Romney's campaign didn't need a reboot because two national polls show Romney tied with the President but today's polls show Obama ahead. At what point do Republican fat cats decide they don't need to send Romney any more money. I mean where is the ROI?
By the way yesterday Buchanan claimed she was the only panelist on the Meet the Press panel defending Romney. I have to agree she was right. Even Joe Scarbrough argued that while Romney might be the Republican candidate, his comments concerning the 47% prove he is no true small government conservative. No overdog can play victim better than a Buchanan.
The fact that a screeching wingnut harpy like Bay Buchanan is the best Romoney can do is a "tell."
And don't forget the reasoned elder statesman John Sununu.....boy can he sell a candidate.
I watched the show (and watched it again on the web) and overall is was pitiful. Personally, I don't like the choice I have in this election as both candidates are severely lacking and I don't care whether you are right-wing, left-wing, or chicken-wing, if you saw the program you saw the worst in MOR journalism! Bay Buchanan was a complete embarrassment, shrill, and even David Gregory told her that she was just mouthing talking points; Scarborough just kept repeating the same pablum he's said all week on his own show; same with David Brooks; Dee Dee was fairly meek and everyone kept talking over her; Reed was quite calm, lucid, and I enjoyed his NASCAR drivers analogy, but again it was the SOS. I'm waiting to see Romney's 2007-2009 tax returns, when he almost certainly took advantage of the amnesty program for tax fraud offered by the IRS for the 30,000 wealthy US citizens who had illegally squirreled funds in foreign banks, such as UBS (see Lindorff at Counterpunch). If he was truly above board and had nothing to hide he would release them as have all other politicians for decades.
The Romney campaign is launching another bus tour of Ohio today. He'll be followed by former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who'll make stops in the same cities.
Will the Romney bus be driving in circles and honking?
Re Romney's phony charges on China. This news item might be of interest: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/24/workers-beg-romney-to-stop-latest-bain-outsourcing/
With a Chinese flag going up over the company headquarters, workers are appealing to Mitt: "
“We’d like Mitt Romney to come to Freeport, see what this is doing to this community, and contact his friends that run Bain Capital and say ‘this is absolutely the wrong thing to do’ and save our jobs.”
The Romney campaign declined to comment on the situation at Sensata, but a spokeswoman contacted by AFP noted that the former Massachusetts governor retired from Bain in 1999 and his investments there are controlled by a blind trust, effectively nullifying his links to the firm."
You realize Romney's "blind trust" is controlled by his personal attorney. Any attorney will tell you that an attorney has an absolute duty to honestly and completely inform his client, so all Romney has to do is ask his attorney and the attorney is ethically obligated to tell him what is going on in as much detail as Romney requests. Like so much coming from Romney, his "blind trust" defense is a lying fraud.
The Romney campaign released a new ad of its own, accusing President Obama of refusing to "stand up to China."
This ad is running non-stop in Florida and I just scratch my head and other parts of my anatomy.
Outsourcer in Chief has the temerity .... oh wait....Rove Rubber Glue 101
How about a cut to the list of the 10 richest people in in the US
Oh look! 4 of the last names are Walton .
Next test . Try to find something in Walmart not made in China
Among the 47% are 500,000 who made over $100K but paid no federal tax either because the income was tax free or generous deductions. Another 100,000 were US troops serving in combat. Group also includes college and grad students and seniors with only Social Security income.
In short, the components of the 47% have little in common with each other.
Factcheck.org did a good article on the breakdown of the 47%, and it's worth the time spent to read it.
http://factcheck.org/2012/09/dependency-and-romneys-47-percenters/
As I've said before, my main question is why is okay for the Romneys of the world to take every deduction and tax credit legally available to them (and I agree that it is), yet when those that comprise the 47% also claim what's legally available for them, they are deadbeats that are 'dependent upon government?'
How is this not class warfare and an obvious feeling of entitlement? The only difference is that it's just not coming from the 47%.
(For those who would argue that Romney pays taxes, remember, he doesn't draw a salary, so he doesn't pay payroll taxes. It depends upon which side of the tree one wishes to pick his/her cherries.)
even right leaning "we ask america" and ras are putting out bad news for rmoney..
via taegan's pwire
Colorado: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling)
Florida: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (American Research Group)
Iowa: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group)
Michigan: Obama 54%, Romney 42% (Rasmussen)
North Carolina: Obama 49%, Romney 45% (Civitas)
Nevada: Obama 51%, Romney 44% (American Research Group)
Wisconsin: Obama 53%, Romney 41% (We Ask America)
i'd note that the arg fla poll and the civitas nc poll have obama leading bigger than his 08 margin of victory...a bit unlikely
In their first debate, Scott Brown claimed that Elizabeth Warren "doesn't look like she's a Native American." According to her accounts of her family lineage, she's 1/32 Cherokee. People with a greater percentage than that are hardly recognizable as being Native American.
I hope Brown keeps going down this road. It leads nowhere.
Very neatly phrased. No objection--to any of it.
He also used the phrase "she checked the box" three times in their debate. Some have interpreted this calculated repetition as a dog-whistle for the angry white male anti-affirmative action crowd. Now that I think about it, it's hard not to think of it that way. Brown mouthpieces, of course, insist he's only talking about her character and integrity.
Brown is coming off as a man with a seriously unhealthy obsession. Keep up the good work, Scotty!
We need an simple ad: head shot of George Romney, with these words below: The tradition used to be that candidates gave out general information on their income and financial assets via a statement. That all changed in 1967 when George Romney released his actual tax returns for the previous 12 years. “One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show,” the elder Romney said then.
We need to run this ad often, everywhere: headshot of George Romney, with the following words below: The tradition used to be that candidates gave out general information on their income and financial assets via a statement. That all changed in 1967 when George Romney released his actual tax returns for the previous 12 years. “One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show,” the elder Romney said then.
The Romney campaign released a new ad of its own, accusing President Obama of refusing to "stand up to China."
What I love about this ad is Romney talking about "cheaters". Every time I hear this I think of him being a cheater over his taxes.
I've been wrong before but I think what the Romney campaign needs right now is some major help from the 'sters, those three cute little furry break-dancers that shill for the KIA Soul. Those guys are just so up! Back in the '60's Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape, wrote that humans as a species have an unconscious bias for things that are fur-bearing as opposed to fins, feathers or scales. Maybe Mitt could finally neutralize some of the bad press from his Seamus the Dog story. If those wicked cool hip-hop rodents can get some serious music lovers to kick it during their "Night at the Opera," or teach those war-bots in the Terminator hellscape how to shake their shiny metal booties, just maybe there's a chance that they can successfully flog the (all new) Twenty-Twelve Romney. The hamster trio (and that's heavy on the ham) has everything that the Romney-Ryan ticket needs: likability, energy and instead of laissez-faire, "Laissez bons temps rouler!," which the RNC sure didn't have. Hey, I'm just sayin' it could work and the whiskers on those guys are killer!
This story aired on cnn this is what romney want's as his new health care.http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-01/us/waiting.room.death_1_hospital-staff-hospital-employee-kings-county-hospital-center?_s=PM:US
Time to start investigating Mitt Romney's physical and mental health - seriously speaking. There is a very strong possibility that the yellow skin tone is jaundice related to a liver problem or due to medication. Even the whites of his eyes appear tinted...very bad signs. Then comes the mental health. During an interview last month on his campaign bus, Ann Romney was described by Mitt as the one who keeps his schedule slow and not too busy. Then, the shifts in comments. These may not be due to changing opinions. MAYBE he is not remembering what he has stated on previous occasions???? The comment during an event last week where he appeared to forget what he was talking about and mentioned how beautiful the clouds were...the interview on 60 Minutes about angels and the one about the emergency room for treatment. It is ALL pointing to the possibility of the same issue as the one that the terrific coach Pat Summit is dealing with. It needs to be looked at carefully, PLEASE!
Has anyone looked into taxes Romney does not pay because he is a head of the Mormon church? Churches don't pay taxes even when they are billion dollar enterprises. I'm pretty sure he is not paying taxes for anything he claims has to do with church work.
Scott Brown seems to think that he can determine WHO someone is by "looking at her". His ignorance and hubris are striking. What exactly does he believe a Choctaw looks like? Or a Jew? Or a lesbian? Or an American? Should I bother to cite, in our nation that will soon become a mostly non-white majority, a multi-racial (post Scott Brown) America, that "white people" sometimes look like Barack Obama? That Jews sometimes look like Sammy Davis, Jr? That Choctaws sometimes look like the great southern Poet Laureate of the US William Jay Smith? That lesbians sometimes look like Portia De Rossi?
Scott Brown is a man of an America that I hope has passed. One that sees the "plain truth" of racial profiling through the narrow world view of one straight white guy from the eastern part of the Commonwealth.
Why doesn't she look like the old Atlanta Braves mascot or a John Wayne movie extra?