- Florida looks like it will move its primary to January, upending the GOP nominating calendar.
- Straight-talker Chris Christie suddenly decides to be opaque about his intentions.
- He gives Perry a whack on immigration.
- Perry uses a lot of clichés.
- He plans to hit Romney harder.
- Where the presidential cash race stands ahead of Friday’s filing deadline.
- Bloomberg-surveyed economist like the American Jobs Act.
- Obama continues with a seemingly futile Mideast peace process. He omits any mention it in his Rosh Hashanah message.
- The Supreme Court will decide deportation of illegals who arrived as minors.
- How exposed are U.S. banks to the Euro crisis?
- There’s a $50 billion class action lawsuit against Bank of America quietly moving ahead.
- And this needs to be posted again because what’s good is to get these goats for our computer industry:
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More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.
