If you don’t have access to television or you’re held up somewhere this evening, you can watch the only vice presidential debate tonight on CMP, either on your laptop or on your smartphone (CMP is now smartphone friendly). The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided…
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From The Root: This bait and switch performance was signaled in March by Romney’s key strategist Eric Fehrnstrom when CNN asked whether his candidate’s hard-core conservative positions taken during the primary would hurt him with moderates in the campaign against Obama. “Well, I think you hit a reset button for…
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This waste of skin did not even bother to ask the contenders about reproductive rights, the Supreme Court, mortgage foreclosures, or student loans. “Soft on Wall Street, Tough on Sesame Street” Romney was visibly agitated, un-presidential, and infantile in his demeanor — to say nothing of his incessant barrage of…
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If you don’t have access to television or you’re held up somewhere this evening, you can watch the debate tonight on CMP, either on your laptop or on your smartphone (CMP is now smartphone friendly) — we’re embedding Google’s YouTube feed. Tonight’s debate will be moderated by PBS’ Jim Lehrer.…
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From MotherJones: One manifestation of this indiscriminate biliousness is the statement that gets aired every four years: that in presidential elections we are asked to choose the lesser of two evils. Now, this is not an analysis or an insight; it is a cliché, and a very tired one, and…
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From ThinkProgress: In fact, the Economic Policy Institute found that Romney’s plans would actually lead to a net loss of jobs over the first two years of his administration, and the losses could grow even larger if Romney were to stick to his promise of reaching a balanced budget. EPI…
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From TP: According to new revisions released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy created 386,000 more jobs between March 2011 and March 2012 than shown by previous estimates. As economist Justin Wolfers noted, this means that President Obama is now net positive for job creation over his…
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