President Obama vs Mitt Romney on energy policy
Nevada: No donations to Romney SuperPAC in March
Small thing I suppose, but what does it say when no one in Nevada contributed to Romney’s SuperPAC last month? Nevada will be an important swing state in the election.
Hmm…
Pew Research: Top issues for voters in 2012 election
Notice the bottom three issues are social issues. For those politicians who love to use the phrase “what Americans want is…” they should take note. Stop demonizing gay marriage, birth control and abortion. “What Americans want” is to hear a civil discourse on the economy and jobs.
Maybe now that Mitt Romney and his super-PAC have decimated his opponents he’ll start to talk about how he would like to create jobs rather than tear down the other guy.
I’d much rather hear specifics than general rhetoric and negative campaigning. Put stuff out there that shows me why you’re the better choice.
Mitt Romney blames factory closed during Bush years on President Obama
Visiting a closed Ohio drywall factory Thursday, Mitt Romney seized on the plant’s years-long shuttering to hammer home the point spelled out on a banner hanging over his head: “Obama Isn’t Working.”
“Had the president’s economic plans worked – President Obama’s plans worked – it would be open by now. But it’s still empty,” Romney told a crowd of supporters gathered inside the National Gypsum Company plant in Lorain, Ohio.
“And it underscores the failure of this president’s policies with regards for getting the economy going again,” Romney added.
The factory closed in 2008, when George W. Bush was president. It was President Obama’s predecessor whose policies led to the factory closing.
“What are they going blame him for next?” Lorain City Council President Joel Arredondo told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “The Titanic?”
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Rick Santorum may – or may not – endorse Mitt Romney in next couple of months
I notice the former campaign staffer for Rick Santorum says Mitt Romney and Santorum will meet in the next month or so, and will discuss an endorsement but nothing’s guaranteed.
Should be quite the cocktail hour:
“Hey, remember that time you outspent me 10-1 in – what state was that?”
“Ah,… good times….”
Poll: Real Clear Politics – General Elections Averages 4-17-12
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Gallup daily tracking poll: Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%
Gallup has begun it’s presidential general election daily tracking poll for 2012.
At this point, at the start of the general election (now that Santorum has suspended his campaign Mitt Romney is the sure-to-be GOP candidate) Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%. Both candidates show 90% support from their respective parties.
From Gallup: “History shows that the candidates’ positioning in the spring of an election year is not necessarily good at forecasting the election outcomes. For example, in an April 20-22, 1992, Gallup poll, incumbent President George H.W. Bush was ahead with 41% of the vote, compared with 26% for Bill Clinton and 25% for Ross Perot. And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%, with John Anderson receiving 18% support. Both Bush and Carter, of course, ultimately lost their re-election bids.”
UPDATE: President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Romney in a new CNN/ORC International poll, thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans.
According to the poll, 52% of registered voters say if the presidential election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 43% saying they would cast a ballot for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is making his second bid for the White House.
Fox News calls out Mitt Romney for “accounting trick” regarding women’s unemployment statement
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday called out presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for using an “accounting trick” to assert that women had lost 92.3 percent of the jobs during President Barack Obama’s first term.
“The number of jobs — this is an amazing statistic — the percentage of jobs lost by women in the president’s three years — three and a half years — 92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women!” Romney had said while surrounded by a group of women in Hartford, Connecticut last week.
“You know, 858,000 women have lost their jobs since President Obama took office,” Mitt Romney’s Senior Advisor Gillespie declared. “Ninety-two percent of the job losses in this recession or this recovery — slow stifled recovery — have fallen on women.”
“Wait,” Wallace interrupted. “You know that it is true that more women have lost jobs and it’s true that more women are without jobs now, but it is not true that 90 percent — they did under Obama, but many, many more men — because they are in the job sectors that people lose jobs first — lost jobs under President Bush.”
“So, it’s a little bit of an accounting trick,” Wallace added. “And all of the independent fact finders have said it’s misleading.”
Willy Wonka: Stay at home moms
Tweet of the day: Mitt Romney by Andy Borowitz
