Monthly Archives: July 2012

In Warsaw Speech, Romney Heaps Praise on John Paul II

Posted on July 31st, 2012

 | By Jonathan Martin       POLITICO 7/31/12 7:45 AM EDT WARSAW — Mitt Romney, speaking in the homeland of the late Pope John Paul II, used a speech here Tuesday to pay homage to the iconic pontiff, a deeply popular figure among American Catholics. Saying that John Paul “has a unique and a special place [...]

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Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Posted on July 28th, 2012

Saturday, July 28, 2012 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting 48% of the vote, while President Obama earns support from 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. Romney’s has lead by four or five points for three consecutive days. That’s the [...]

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Archie Bunker on the Democrats

Posted on July 28th, 2012

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on July 28th, 2012

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Fact-Checking the Latest Bain Hysteria

Posted on July 28th, 2012

Journalists have been eager to find something scandalous in Mitt Romney’s private-equity career. As a result, there’s been a fair share of confused reporting about Romney’s Bain Capital days. Such is the case with a set of breathless articles from the Associated Press and Mother Jones, regarding investments made by two of Bain Capital’s subsidiaries, [...]

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The Hill Poll: Voters blame president most for slow economic recovery

Posted on July 24th, 2012

By Sheldon Alberts THE HILL Two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington’s fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else, according to a new poll for The Hill. It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth and slow economic recovery is the result of bad policy. Thirty-four percent say Obama [...]

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Political Cartoons: “You Didn’t Build That”

Posted on July 24th, 2012

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Kristol can’t wait for the end

Posted on July 22nd, 2012

By Maggie Naberman    POLITICO More on the micro state of the race, from Weekly Standard editor William Kristol: Does this year’s presidential campaign strike you as strikingly petty? Boringly conventional? Uncommonly stupid? Yes? Join the crowd. It shouldn’t be this way. After all, the times are unusually interesting, the nation’s circumstances fundamentally challenging, our conditions [...]

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Among Military Veterans: Romney 59% Obama 35%

Posted on July 22nd, 2012

Most military veterans don’t like the job President Obama is doing and prefer Mitt Romney in November’s election. New Rasmussen Reports polling finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters who have served in the military favor the Republican challenger, while 35% support the president. Five percent (5%) of these voters like some other candidate in [...]

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Mitt Romney hopes overseas trip will show him as statesman

Posted on July 20th, 2012

By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz The Washington Post   Mitt Romney plans to depart next week for a visit to Britain, Israel and Poland, and the Republican presidential candidate hopes the trip will help him project the aura of a statesman and signal to voters back home that he would make a plausible commander [...]

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