Month: October 2012
See If You Can Make the Romney-Ryan Tax Plan Work
The Washington Post’s Wonkblog has a great interactive “revenue meter” that enables you to try and get the Republican tax plan to add up. You can get there, but it ain’s easy and it ain’t according to the R&R tax approach. Check it out and tell us your results in comments.
GM Spokesman Calls Romney Ad ‘Parallel Universe’
We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.
— GM spokesman Greg Martin, quoted by the Detroit Free Press, on Mitt Romney’s latest ad in Ohio.
McCain Politicizes Storm-Relief Event
This president is either engaged in a massive cover-up deceiving the American people or he is so grossly incompetent that he is not qualified to be the commander in chief of our armed forces. It’s either one of them.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by NBC News, politicizing a storm relief event in Ohio.
Axelrod Bets His ‘Stashe on Swing States
I will come on ‘Morning Joe,’ and I will shave off my mustache of 40 years if we lose any of those three states.
— Obama advisor David Axelrod, expressing confidence that president Obama’s re-election chances aren’t in danger in Michigan, Minnesota or Pennsylvania, despite tightening polls there, the Washington Post reports.
Majority Thinks Obama Will Win Re-Election
54% to 34%
Spread by which Americans continue to believe that President Obama will win re-election Tuesday over Mitt Romney, according to a new Gallup poll.
GM Joins Chrysler in Calling Romney’s Jeep Ad a Lie
For the third time in a week, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the auto industry are at loggerheads, this time over a Romney radio ad implying that GM and Chrysler are expanding production in China at the cost of American jobs.
The ad claimed that “Under President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for China.”
The accusation drew a dismissive response from a GM spokesman, who explained, “We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”
