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 able to fix the economy and help middle-class ...
Posted Thursday, July 26th 2012 at 11:25AM
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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 Obama for Obamacare, explains the benefits of refo ...
Posted Wednesday, July 25th 2012 at 5:10PM
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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 and plans for an extensive public archive of ...
Posted Wednesday, July 25th 2012 at 3:18PM
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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, the Romney campaign released an attack ad featurin ...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th 2012 at 5:02PM
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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 rival, former governor Mitt Romney, criticized as an ...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th 2012 at 4:51PM
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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 morning that both presidential candidates must expla ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 12:51PM
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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 of the health care law on June 28, 2012.
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Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 10:10AM
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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 said one of the most regurgitated falsehoods of t ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 10:06AM
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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 Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado.
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Posted Sunday, July 22nd 2012 at 12:17PM
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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 was looking at the PollTracker averages this even ...
Posted Sunday, July 22nd 2012 at 11:56AM
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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 now-expired federal Assault Weapons ban. The AR-15 ...
Posted Saturday, July 21st 2012 at 11:32AM
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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 and why new Voter ID laws are more about placing ba ...
Posted Friday, July 20th 2012 at 11:24AM
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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 from its straps.
A former hotel housekeeper, Ms ...
Posted Friday, July 20th 2012 at 11:18AM
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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 roughly 170 local jobs being outsourced by a comp ...
Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:56AM
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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, with resounding choruses of Happy Birthday.
Ma ...
Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:29AM
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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 million Americans, they will lose the insurance th ...
Posted Wednesday, July 18th 2012 at 11:16AM
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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 tax returns, his campaign has sought to claim t ...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th 2012 at 12:04PM
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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 into accepted wisdom. Much of this is the resu ...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th 2012 at 12:00PM
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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 — a law which the Supreme Court upheld last week ...
Posted Sunday, July 8th 2012 at 10:03AM
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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 employee Valerie Bruton was left with no choice but ...
Posted Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 9:26PM
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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 to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from t ...
Posted Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 9:24PM
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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 the President was inaugurated. As the New York Time ...
Posted Friday, July 6th 2012 at 7:18PM
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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, according to TMZ, made a derisive comment about h ...
Posted Friday, July 6th 2012 at 6:48PM
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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 takeover” decried and demagogued by so many conserv ...
Posted Thursday, July 5th 2012 at 11:27AM
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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 candidate Mitt Romney spent so much time chatting wi ...
Posted Wednesday, July 4th 2012 at 2:43PM
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