Romney feels haunted by gaffes. Ground zero, Wisconsin. The Senate race is a better bellwether than the recall.
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Why the Massachusetts Senate race is close: the fundamentals favor Warren, Brown is more popular. George Will chalks it up to off-putting identity politics of l’affaire de Cherokee, though the polling suggests it’s not having a huge effect. Fewer Americans are identifying as “pro-choice” even though their views on abortion haven’t changed.
”Uncommitted” and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It’s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall. A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about [...]
Obama and Romney run dead even on the economy, which 80% say is still bad though a slim majority now feel hopeful about its direction. The way for conservatives to embrace Romney is to pressure him. Unable to further avail the White House, Catholic institutions sue the Obama Administration over contraception coverage requirement. HHS awards [...]
How Mormonism shaped Romney. How 1968 shaped Romney. How Obama narrowed the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
Joe Ricketts backs off Jeremiah Wright. Romney’s first TV ad of the general election: greenlight the Keystone pipeline, cut taxes, repeal health reform. The Federal Reserve Board is now fully staffed for the first time since 2006. (It’s not like much happened in the realm of monetary policy over the last six years, right?) Mann [...]
The cost of JPMorgan’s blown bet jumps 50% to $3 billion while things get litigious. A super PAC weighs going after Jeremiah Wright. Scott Walker expedites some convenient jobs numbers. Non-white births are now the majority for the first time in the U.S.
Fundamentals of the presidential race: It’s close, but saying too much more than that is playoff prediction in preseason. Deb Fischer wins Nebraska’s GOP Senate primary after the Tea Party and Establishment guys massacre each other. Greece just keeps getting scarier. Tom Coburn on the fiscal cliff.
NYT/CBS poll finds Romney narrowly ahead, leading Obama among independents and women, despite an uptick in economic optimism. The public detects the whiff of politics in the President’s gay marriage flip. JPMorgan: a case of regression to the mean.
Heads roll at JPMorgan, and it may get worse. For the uninitiated: the best explainer of the $2 billion loss. It’s worth revisiting this account of Romney’s financial regulation platform, or lack thereof, from early May. Painting in broad strokes, there’s a case that Hedge-gate hurts Obama.
