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What would repeal of the Affordable Healthcare Act mean to you?
• Cheaper drugs for seniors in the doughnut hole. REPEALED.
• Coverage for children with pre-existing conditions. REPEALED.
• Free access to Preventative services. REPEALED.
• Women won’t have to pay more than men. REPEALED.
• No lifetime cap on coverage. REPEALED.
• Protection from insurance company abuses. REPEALED.
Think about it: Do you HATE having those protections from insurance companies YOU pay?
Interesting snapshot of where the race is at this moment: states won, delegates won, money raised, odds of winning…
Click on the pic to see larger. Really interesting, especially the money raised by Romney versus the other guys. Based on that alone he should be cruising.
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From ABC News: A photograph of a bumper sticker that features a racist play on words lit up Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere Thursday, adding to what is already shaping up to be one of the most vicious and negative presidential races in history.
The sticker reads “Don’t Re-Nig In 2012″ and sits above a smaller text that reads: “Stop repeat offenders. Don’t re-elect Obama!”
The design seems to have originated from a site called Stumpy’s Stickers, which has since been dismantled. The site featured similar stickers for sale, including a picture of an ape that reads, “Obama 2012″; a drawing of the Confederate flag with the message “If this flag has offended you, then it made my day!”; and another that features members of the Ku Klux Klan and reads, “The Original Boys In The Hood.”
ABC tried to access the website Friday morning, but the email address has been suspended, and the person(s) responsible for the website has not been identified.
The photograph went viral when it was posted to Facebook on Thursday afternoon.
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A two-year, $109 billion measure providing federal funding for the nation’s roads, rails bridges and airports for the next two years passed the Senate on a 74 to 22 vote Wednesday with broad bipartisan support.
The Senate bill’s supporters — Democrats, Republicans, labor unions and business groups — say the bill will help create or sustain almost 3 million jobs, mostly in the construction industry.
Of the 22 Senators who voted against the job creating bill, all were Republican.
Despite Senate passage, the fate of federal transportation funding is unclear in the House. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)hasn’t ruled out a vote on the Senate bill, but his aides said this week he is still negotiating details with GOP lawmakers.
More radical statements from the extreme right from the former half-term governor of Alaska.
Ah, Sarah Palin. The gift that keeps giving…
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From the Republican National Committee on the February unemployment report:
“Today’s jobs report is yet another reminder that far too many Americans are out of work, and the situation is clearly not improving. Millions of families continue to feel the pain of the sluggish Obama economy and the rising cost of gas, groceries, and healthcare. They are still waiting on President Obama to keep his promise of an economic recovery,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
Now – maybe they hit “send” too quick on this one.
The jobs report today actually showed that the economy created 227,000 jobs in February.
In addition to the number of jobs created in February, the report showed an upward revision of 61,000 jobs created in December and January.
Additionally, there was a 92,000 drop in the number of people unemployed for over 27 weeks, coupled with the entrance of over 476,000 into the labor force — a sign of confidence in the economy.
Certainly we all want to see the economy improve faster but how do you say “the situation is clearly not improving” when it clearly is…?
After the ambiguity of Super Tuesday, reporters asked Rick Santorum if he felt Newt Gingrich should get out of the race for the GOP nomination, thereby making a clearer path for Santorum.
Santorum says he feels everyone should continue in the race as long as they feel that want to, and he wouldn’t ask anyone to drop out.
“I’m not saying I don’t want [Newt Gingrich] to get out. I’m all for him getting out,” he said. “I’m all for Mitt Romney getting out. I’m for everybody getting out. I wish President Obama would just hand me the whole thing. But that’s just not going to happen. The idea is let folks decide, you know, what they think is best–what’s best for getting a conservative, someone who’s going to put this country on the right track, elected to president.”
Stuart Roy, an adviser who works for Red, White, and Blue Fund, the pro-Santorum super PAC, said Wednesday that “based on his electoral performance last night and his out-of-step record, it’s time for Gingrich to exit the Republican nominating process.” He added that Gingrich’s “campaign is an obvious non-starter.”
The Washington Post reported this morning that in both Michigan and Ohio, “voters making more than $100,000 per year turn[ed] out in much higher numbers this year than they did in 2008″:
In 2008, 22 percent of GOP primary voters in Michigan made at least $100,000, and that group made up 21 percent of the electorate in Ohio, according to exit polls. This year, 33 percent of voters in Michigan made that much money, while 30 percent of Ohio voters did. In both cases, the number of wealthy voters grew by about 50 percent — a pretty stunning increase in that demographic over just a four-year span.
In both states, Romney won among those making more than $100,000 by 14 points, even though he lost among all other income demographics.
A ThinkProgress analysis of exit/entrance polls from the 14 states that have conducted them shows that Romney consistently does best among those earning more than $100,000 or $200,000 a year, while more often than not losing among middle- and working-class voters.
The only states where this wasn’t true were Massachusetts, his home state where he served as governor, and Virginia, where Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich weren’t even on the ballot.
Read more at ThinkProgress.com