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Ann Romney’s Favorability an Anemic 42%

September 1, 2012 Jon Ponder

42%

Ann Romney’s favorability rating, according to Gallup. Twenty-four percent have an unfavorable rating while 25 percent have no opinion and 9 percent had never heard of her.

Paul Ryan Says He Finished a Marathon in Two Hours and Fifty-Plus Minutes – Runner’s World Says No

September 1, 2012 Jon Ponder

In 2008, Republicans nominated a candidate for vice president who seemingly could not open her mouth without lying. She lied so persistently that after the campaign, Steve Schmidt, a top strategist for the McCain-Palin campaign said, “There were numerous instances that she said things that were — that were not accurate that ultimately, the campaign had to deal with, and that opened the door to criticism that she was being untruthful and inaccurate. And I think that is something that continues to this day.”

In 2012, it appears Republicans have done it again. In his speech accepting his nomination for the vice presidency, bombarded his audience with so many lies that even Fox News could not find a way to pretend to ignore them.

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Month: September 2012

Ann Romney’s Favorability an Anemic 42%

42%

Ann Romney’s favorability rating, according to Gallup. Twenty-four percent have an unfavorable rating while 25 percent have no opinion and 9 percent had never heard of her.

Paul Ryan Says He Finished a Marathon in Two Hours and Fifty-Plus Minutes – Runner’s World Says No

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.