Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change. Mr.
Bloomberg, a political independent in his third term leading New York City, has been sharply critical of Mr. Obama, a Democrat, and Mitt Romney, the president’s Republican rival, saying that both men had failed to candidly confront the problems afflicting the nation. But he said he had decided over the past several days that Mr.
Why George W. Bush Will Decide the 2012 Election - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The Republican ticket’s big Medicare myth. I've got a modest proposal: You're not allowed to demand a "serious conversation" over Medicare unless you can answer these three questions: 1) Mitt Romney says that "unlike the current president who has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion.
We will preserve and protect Medicare. " What happens to those cuts in the Ryan budget? 2) What is the growth rate of Medicare under the Ryan budget? 3) What is the growth rate of Medicare under the Obama budget? Obama vs. Romney on taxes - Jul. 5. Both presidential candidates propose a lot of changes to the tax code.
But neither has presented a complete tax reform proposal. And each has been silent on some key questions. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Tax reform. The Yahoo News election outlook: 100 electoral votes will decide contest. Economic growth may be stagnating, high-dollar donors may be harder to woo than they were four years ago, and Mitt Romney may be narrowing the gap in public-opinion polls, but President Barack Obama has one key thing going for him at the outset of this general election season: a significant advantage in the battle for 270 electoral votes.
According to a Yahoo! News analysis of the current electoral map, President Obama begins this race within grasp of the promised land. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are either solidly in the Obama column or leaning that way, giving Obama a total of 247 electoral votes. Mitt Romney has 23 states either solidly in the fold or leaning in his direction, for a total of 191 electoral votes. Cut Through Political Rhetoric and Track Elections Online. Why The Obama Campaign Shouldn't Declare Victory Just Yet. WASHINGTON -- As the air war begins in earnest between the president and Mitt Romney, the Obama campaign in Chicago called itself, in the words of campaign official David Axelrod, "confident, but realistic.
" "It is a tough environment," Axelrod told The Huffington Post. "There are events that are beyond our control. And we have the super PACs bearing down on us. But we have confidence in our candidate. We have confidence in our message. A second reelection staffer declined to be named, perhaps because he put a more attack-oriented spin on the strategy. So: combative, realistic, girding for a $2 billion drone war, but confident. But should they be? There are reasons for saying yes. But there are a number of reasons why the Obama team might -- and should be -- more worried than they claim and why they should not take anything for granted between now and November. Romney Should Be Further Behind. Basic Numbers Remain Bleak to Meh. Obama and Biden sharpen attacks over economy - Apr. 2. Autos.
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Ryan as VP. Romney (Post-Convention) Romney’s and Obama’s tax plans, in one chart. Romney can’t pay for his tax cuts by repealing Obamacare. I owe S.E.
Cupp an apology: I interrupted her a bit rudely on Alex Wagner’s show today, and I shouldn’t have. But I do find it frustrating when people assert that there is a massive amount of money to be saved by repealing the Affordable Care Act. There isn’t. In 2016, Mitt Romney has promised to cut $500 billion from the federal budget. One way hell pay for it is “with the easiest cut of all: Obamacare, a trillion-dollar entitlement we don’t want and can’t afford.” Recalculating Romney’s Four Percent Gimmick. I have a new piece up at ForeignPolicy.com on Ron Paul and the Republican Party, focused in particular on the strong support that Paul draws from young people, with some additional speculation about where those young people will end up, if and when Paul steps back from his very public role.
My instincts are that these young people are motivated at least as much by the ideas that Paul espouses as by Ron Paul, the person. If I am correct, many of them are likely to remain active in politics. I close with a warning to GOP leaders that they would be making a grave error if they ignored this libertarian-leaning voting bloc. Unfortunately, that is what the GOP’s leading candidate, Mitt Romney, seems to be doing by pushing a short-sighted plan for boosting military spending at a time when the country is awash in debt.
Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter. WASHINGTON (AP) — Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.
Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more. Nonmilitary programs would incur still larger cuts than those called for in the tightfisted GOP budget that the House passed last month. Differences over the government's budget and spiraling deficits are among the starkest that separate Republican Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama. Obama's budget generally avoids risk, with minimal cuts to rapidly growing health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid while socking wealthier people with tax increases. Is this why Mitt Romney’s stadium is empty? Mitt Romney speaking in Detroit.
(Photo: Byron York ) The Internet is having fun with photographs of Mitt Romney giving his big speech on the economy to an empty arena today. But put that aside. The real news is in the speech itself, which is the clearest articulation of Romney’s fiscal plan that he’s yet offered. After outcry from right, Mitt Romney reverses stance on minimum wage. (AP/Gerald Herbert) It didn't get much notice amid the buildup to Super Tuesday.
But after conservative outcry over his support for raising the minimum wage, Mitt Romney quietly reversed his position this week. "There's probably not a need to raise the minimum wage," the Republican front-runner told CNBC's Larry Kudlow on Monday.