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POLITICO, July 25, 2012 – HINT: HE WAS THEIR GOVERNOR FOR FOUR YEARS AND THEY DON’T LIKE HIM. The Obama campaign has had some success in attacking one of Mitt Romney’s two key claims for being ab

Wondering how health care reform works, and why it's so important? In this animated video, Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and former special advisor to Governor Romney for Romneycare and to President

BOSTON GLOBE, July 24, 2012 — Mitt Romney promised “complete transparency” when he took charge of the scandal-plagued Salt Lake City Olympics, a pledge that included access to his own correspondence

THINK PROGRESS, July 23, 2012 -- After the conservative blogosphere used as selectively edited Obama campaign speech to suggest that the president belittled the achievements of small business owners,

WASHINGTON POST, July 20, 2012 -- There are few original ideas in politics, just old arguments. We were reminded of this as we considered the ruckus over comments by President Obama that his GOP ri

THINK PROGRESS, July 23, 2012 -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doubled down on his call for stronger gun regulation in the aftermath of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, telling MSNBC Monday mo

POLTIFACT, June 28, 2012 -- How is it that a law can raise taxes and cut spending, but also add trillions to the deficit? That was Mitt Romney’s claim after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the core

POLITIFACT, March 26, 2012 -- As Supreme Court justices embarked on three days of oral arguments in the historic lawsuit over the health care law, Gov. Rick Scott went on a national TV media blitz and

MSNBC, July 21, 2012 -- Melissa Harris-Perry dedicated a large portion of her Saturday MSNBC show to the tragic mass shooting that took place early Friday morning at a midnight premiere of "The Dark K

TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 21, 2012 -- Everyone knows that New York is a solidly Democratic state. And no one expects Mitt Romney to contest let alone win it. But I noticed something kind of odd when I

THINKPROGRESS, July 20, 2012 -- One of the principal weapons used by James Eagan Holmes in the horrific Dark Knight Rises shooting would have been subject to a series of sharp restrictions under the n

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, July 18, 2012 -- Rachel talks with Michael Waldman, President of Brennan Center for Justice about the new challenges facing poor, elderly and minority voters in this election a

NEW YORK TIMES, July 20, 2012— Four years ago as Viviette Applewhite, now 93, was making her way through her local Acme supermarket, her pocketbook hanging from her shoulder, a thief sliced the bag fr

HUFFINGTON POST, July 18, 2012 -- The city council of Freeport, Ill., approved a resolution Monday evening that will call on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to step in and save

JOHANNESBURG, July 18, 2012 -- Nearly 12 million children across South Africa kicked off celebrations Wednesday for the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the country's deeply loved anti-apartheid icon,

POLITIFACT, June 28, 2012 -- Following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law, Mitt Romney claimed in a speech that "Obamacare … means that for up to 20 millio

WASHINGTON POST, July 16, 2012 -- In trying to fend off demands — from both Democrats and even some Republicans — that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney release more than two years of t

July 16, 2012, by Bill Keller, NEW YORK TIMES -- ON the subject of the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, to reclaim the name critics have made into a slur — a number of fallacies seem to be congealing

THINKPROGRESS, July 6, 2012 -- The economy may be struggling to create enough jobs to keep up with population growth, but Republicans are busy drafting legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act —

THINKPROGRESS, July 7, 2012 -- After Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital bought the office supply maker SCM, laid off workers, gutted pay and benefits, and ultimately shut down the entire plant, former SCM emp

HUFFINGTON POST, July 7, 2012 -- For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her t

THINK PROGRESS, July 6, 2012 -- When Mitt Romney criticizes the job creation record of the Obama administration, he contributes job losses to Obama that took place in January 2009, immediately after t

HUFFINGTON POST, July 6, 2012 -- Chris Christie's temper strikes again. While on vacation with his family in Seaside Heights, N.J. on Thursday, the Republican governor lashed out at a passerby who,

ALTERNET, July 4, 2012 -- There are two Affordable Care Acts. There's the legislation passed by Congress in 2009, and then there's the mythical Affordable Care Act – the perfidious “government takeove

THE GRIO, July 2, 2012 -- As soon as the words escaped my lips, live on national television, I suspected I might have a problem. I’d used the phrase trying to explain why Republican presidential cand