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OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's G

OpenSecrets Blog May 22 - If President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's long career at Bain Capital are a liability, as some Democrats now worry, they don't seem to bother many of Romney's old colleagues: Employees of Bain Capital and Bain & Company have given more than $152,000 to Obama's campaign and the joint fundraising operation he runs with the Democratic National Committee. May 22 - A new poll shows that mitt Romney may have narrowed the gender gap between himself and Barack Obama somewhat in terms of voters -- he's only behind by about 7 percentage points, instead of 19 as he was earlier this year -- but the enthusiasm isn't translating to dollars for the campaign. May 21 - It was a bear market last month in terms of Wall Street's investment in the presidential race -- candidates and super PACs alike. http://www.opensecrets.org/

PolitiFact | Sorting out the truth in politics

http://www.politifact.com/ Inside the Meter We've created a new page so you can see Truth-O-Meter items that have a correction or update. The page will include articles or Truth-O-Meter ... For tips or comments on our Obameter and our GOP-Pledge-O-Meter promise databases, please e-mail the Obameter . If you are commenting on a specific promise, please include the wording of the promise.
March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market … More >> http://factcheck.org/

FactCheck.org

Access Candidates' and Representatives' Biographies , Voting Records , Interest Group Ratings , Issue Positions , Public Statements , and Campaign Finances Simply enter your zip code above to get to all of your candidates and representatives, or enter a name. Then, just click on the person you are interested in, and you can navigate to the categories of information we track for them.

Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates

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FrumForum — Building a conservatism that can win again

Hello everyone. David and I have been in meetings all day but we made time to check in on the comment thread announcing the move to the Daily Beast and Newsweek. The support in the comments has been remarkable. However, there seems to be some misunderstanging going around so we wanted to clear up a few things: 1. Although David has been mandated with writing excellent magazine pieces for Newsweek, he will still be blogging regularly at The Daily Beast.