After being selected by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate , Paul Ryan made an emotional homecoming as he and Romney arrived in Wisconsin to a roaring throng. The two made their dramatic entrance on stage in front of a crowd around 8,000 people to theme song of blockbuster thriller, [...]
Romney Doesn’t Budge on Taxes as the Hits Continue
July 23, 2012 | Posted by
With each passing day, the pressure on Mitt Romney to release more tax return intensifies, threatening to drown out Romney’s economic message and leading observers to conclude that the stuff he is trying to hide must be pretty darn bad if it’s worth all the hits he’s taking. As Ben Adler points out in The [...]
Is Obama Going Too Far With Romney Attacks?
July 16, 2012 | Posted by
Political analyst David Gergen, who has been an advisor to four presidents, makes a strong case on CNN.com that the Obama campaign is going too far in implying that Republican Mitt Romney may have committed a felony by providing misleading information about when he stepped down from Bain Capital. Gergen admits at the top of [...]
President Obama: I Will Win Virginia and the Election
July 15, 2012 | Posted by
President Obama made a promise to the voters of Virginia yesterday that not only was he going to take Virginia in the upcoming election but that he was going to win the whole thing. Soaked from a torrential downpour in Glen Allen, Virginia, Obama was feisty and confident as he addressed a crowd packed with [...]
Romney Accused of Lying About When He Left Bain Capital
July 13, 2012 | Posted by
Mitt Romney’s stewardship of venture capital firm Bain Capital has become a source of campaign controversy once again as the Obama campaign is accusing him of either committing a felony or lying to the American people by being untruthful about when he stepped down as the head of the firm. Romney has repeatedly said he [...]
Obama Gets Mileage From Negative Romney Ads
July 4, 2012 | Posted by
Going negative apparently is working for President Obama. In key battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, voters who are exposed to Obama’s message that Romney is a “vulture capitalist” who specialized in exporting jobs overseas while he ran Bain Capital have a more negative view of Romney’s business background than do voters in other states. [...]
New Book Says The 1% Aren’t Rich Enough
June 8, 2012 | Posted by
Bain Capital has been prominent in the economic and political headlines since Mitt Romney made began his bid for the GOP Presidential nomination, but fellow Bain alumnus Edward Conard has made a splash of his own with his new book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong. In the book, [...]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Gets Scolded by Obama Campaign
June 2, 2012 | Posted by
Newark Mayor Cory Booker traveled across the entire country to deliver a speech to Democrats in Seattle, where he jokingly told them he had been advised by the Obama campaign to avoid sticking his foot in his mouth again. Booker was referring to the media storm he created when he went on Meet the Press [...]
Bill Clinton Thinks The Obama Campaign Attacking Romney on Bain Capital is Bad Strategy
June 1, 2012 | Posted by
Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday night became the latest surrogate for President Obama to stray from campaign talking points, saying GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s business experience “crosses the qualification threshold.” In an interview on the Piers Morgan show on CNN, Clinton said the Obama campaign shouldn’t spend its energy criticizing Romney’s work at Bain [...]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Received Money from Romney’s Firm in 2002
May 22, 2012 | Posted by
After Newark Mayor Cory Booker drew the media glare for criticizing the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record with firm Bain Capital, reporters have dug through Booker’s own campaign contributions to discover that he received $36,000 from Bain Capital during his 2002 mayoral run—and a total of more than $565,000 from Wall Street financiers. [...]
