A Black Attack
Sarah Palin’s pundit business is still thrivin’,
She’s still out there hypin’, snipin’ and gripin’.
But she fell down that chasm
Of bald-faced racism
When she accused the president of shuckin’ and jivin’.
Day: October 24, 2012
Congress’ Approval Is Up, But Still Down
21%
Of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, up from 13% in September and the highest Gallup has measured since May 2011. Still, it remains one of the lowest approval ratings for Congress prior to an election.
Obama the First Meme President
Though they’re usually playful, memes can tell us a lot about what people really think about the president. They’ve tracked the hopes projected on him, the difficulties he’s faced in office and the fears of his opponents. And though they are generated and sustained by grassroots Internet users, Obama has played a key role in popularizing many of them.
— Ryan Teague Beckwith, of the San Jose Mercury News, who has compiled an exhaustive history of the memes of the Obama presidency, including the hope poster, Superman, the teleprompter, Spock, the Joker, the Jedi knight and “not bad.”
Early Voting to Help Obama, Hurt Romney
Two-to-one, people who say they have already voted are Barack Obama supporters. The majority of people who plan to vote early are Barack Obama supporters. The majority of people who plan to vote on election day, Romney supporters. I think that’s what gets tricky — you have to have a huge margin on election day to offset the Democrats.
— Pollster Ann Selzer, in an interview with TPM on the impact of early voting.
Plouffe: Romney ‘Owns’ What Trump Says
Direct those questions to Boston because Donald Trump is Mitt Romney’s biggest supporter, so he owns everything he says.
— David Plouffe, quoted by Politico, when asked about Trump’s much-hyped video announcement today.
Obama Way Ahead Among Early Voters
53% to 42%
The lead President Obama has among the 17% of surveyed registered voters who said they had already cast their vote, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll.
Mitt Romney Alleged to Have Committed Perjury in Staples CEO’s Divorce Trial – Mitt Was Also Accused of Perjury in 2002
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred has a pretty good track record when it comes to lobbing political bombshells. In 2010, she permanently hobbled the gubernatorial campaign of Mitt Romney’s friend Meg Whitman with the revelation that Whitman had employed an undocumented worker for years and then tried to cover it up.
More recently, Allred was instrumental in bringing then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s extramarital affair with his housekeeper to light, providing proof, finally, that Schwarzenegger was a scumbag philanderer — a fact that had been common knowledge in Hollywood for decades for the action star ran for governor.
Now Allred is investigating testimony provided by Romney during divorce proceedings for Staples CEO Tom Stemberg and his then-wife Maureen Sullivan. In the testimony, Romney is alleged to have helped Stemberg conceal the true worth of Staples Inc. from the court.
