Posts tagged 2012 election

What EVERYONE should know about the secretive group trying to swift boat Barack Obama

MORE FACTS AT THE LINK about the group’s attempt to do to Barack Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans did to Kerry’s 2004 campaign. 

In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million view on Youtube.  [YouTube, 5/1/12]

The group’s sole employee and founder is coordinating with key Islamophobic figures on the far-right.[ThinkProgress,2/12/12;For The Common Defense; New York Times,3/4/05]

The group’s founder helped promote a documentary advocating war with Iran. [Flier; ThinkProgress, 11/3/11]

Veterans for A Strong American is fully endorsed by Karl Rove. The man known as “Bush’s Brain” tweeted his support of their first web ad. [Twitter,5/3/12]

The group’s founder — posing as a “journalist” — organized and participated in a taxpayer subsidized propaganda trip to Iraq in 2008. [Charleston Gazette, 8/28/08]

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Howard Dean Criticizes Michele Bachmann's Claim That Women Will Vote For Mitt Romney

“Frankly, Michele Bachmann has never had much command of the facts and that shows us exactly why,” Dean said on “Face the Nation,” in response to Bachmann’s claim that female voters would turn out for Romney. “Women are terrified of what the Republicans are talking about. They’re talking about basically stripping away their ability to have insurance pay for their birth control pills.”

Dean continued: “[The Romney] candidacy is a shipwreck and for Michele Bachmann to go on there and claim that women are going to vote for Mitt Romney is perfectly ridiculous.”

Earlier on the CBS News program, Bachmann said the so-called “war on women” is a myth concocted by Democrats.

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Fired Up! Republicans Are Taking the Country Back … in Time

One of the battle cries of the far right is this: ‘We want to take our country back.’ Maybe you dismissed that as meaning, back from the Democrats. But you notice, they don’t say, ‘we want to take our government back.’ They say… ‘our country.’

And based on the evidence pouring out of state legislatures, that is what the Republican revolution of 2010 has set out to do — take the country back — back in time. Back to those golden days before civil rights and gender equality. It was so much easier back then, wasn’t it?

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wonklife: “As you can see, Romney is the clear anomaly by a long shot, raising nearly 90 percent of his total haul from larger contributions. By contrast, only around 40% of Obama’s donations are from individuals who have given more than $200 total and his smaller contributors alone raised more money in total than Romney’s entire fundraising operation. For the rest of the Republican field, the ratio is somewhere closer to 50-50 — take a look at the total small donor cash for Gingrich and Paul, for example, and you see that their huge disadvantage versus Romney is almost entirely due to the frontrunner’s bigger contributors.” (via Two Charts That Should Make Romney Gulp | TPM2012)

wonklife:

“As you can see, Romney is the clear anomaly by a long shot, raising nearly 90 percent of his total haul from larger contributions. By contrast, only around 40% of Obama’s donations are from individuals who have given more than $200 total and his smaller contributors alone raised more money in total than Romney’s entire fundraising operation. For the rest of the Republican field, the ratio is somewhere closer to 50-50 — take a look at the total small donor cash for Gingrich and Paul, for example, and you see that their huge disadvantage versus Romney is almost entirely due to the frontrunner’s bigger contributors.” (via Two Charts That Should Make Romney Gulp | TPM2012)

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Our prediction: Obama will win re-election with 303 electoral votes to the GOP nominee’s 235

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Our team at The Signal crunched the numbers from a real-time prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists, and the data suggest that a second term is likely for the current president. Of course, we don’t know anything for sure, but an examination of the last 10 presidential elections found that the Yahoo! model would have correctly predicted the winner in 88 percent of the 500 individual state elections.

Get the details on our prediction and process.

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Obama Popularity Rising While Republican Enthusiasm Falls

It will be no easy task to unseat Obama. Polls show his popularity on the rise with Democrats andIndependents (even among Republicans), the economy is improving and Republican enthusiasm waning. More and more Americans are for marriage equality, contraception (including most Catholics) and even abortion rights (a recent ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll shows that support at 57 percent) even while Republicans make those issues central to their platforms. If any movement in history was swimming against a historic tide, it is the GOP of 2012.

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motherjones: Will Romney become the least favored, most unfavorable man in America? Via Talking Points Memo

motherjones:

Will Romney become the least favored, most unfavorable man in America?

Via Talking Points Memo

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