Buoyed by home-field advantage and stellar name recognition, Romney is lapping his Republican rivals in early New Hampshire polls. But even in a Romney redoubt, it remains an open question whether he can convert comfort level into votes.
The report that Rick Perry’s family leased a hunting property named “Niggerhead” illustrates two noteworthy dynamics of the Texan’s candidacy. One is simply that entering a presidential race as late as Perry did causes every pockmark to be magnified by an eager press corps and judged harshly by an impressionable public just getting to know [...]
In his Saturday night address to the Human Rights Campaign, the wealthy gay advocacy group, President Obama drew laughs by recalling a recent trip to California, where he held “productive, bilateral talks” with Lady Gaga, who, he noted, “was wearing 16-inch heels.” He spoke of “a big America, a tolerant America,” and forcefully touted his [...]
Even as Texas Governor Rick Perry downplays the story of a racist epithet painted on a rock outside a property that he co-leased, black Republicans are not giving him the benefit of the doubt. First came GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who said yesterday that Perry handled the episode in a “very insensitive” way. And [...]
People around the country are rallying around a new ill-defined movement, which has for now taken its name from its first act of civil disobedience: Occupy Wall Street. For now, it looks marginal, rag-tag, ill-defined and without focus. But keep an eye on it. To paraphrase Buffalo Springfield, something may be happening here.
Bloomberg has a good, old-fashioned investigative piece on the private business empire of David and Charles Koch, the billionaire conservative political activists who inherited their father’s small oil company and now produce everything from Dixie cups and Stainmaster Carpet to petrochemical equipment. “Koch Industries tells all of its employees around the world that its top [...]
–Obama political adviser David Axelrod responding to a report that Rick Perry’s family leased a hunting camp called “Niggerhead.”
The Perry family leased a hunting property with the name “Niggerhead” painted on a rock at its entrance. There are conflicting accounts of how long it took the Perrys to obscure the name. House Republicans return to Washington divided. A profile of Eric Cantor, Grand Bargain saboteur.
When Barack Obama talks about taxes these days, he likes to talk about Warren Buffett’s secretary. “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” Obama announced last month. “Warren Buffett’s secretary shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett.” But if Mitt Romney is able to clinch the Republican nomination fnext spring, Obama will have a better example to talk about.
