According to Priorities, the ad is part of a multi-million dollar television and online ad campaign slated to air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, key battleground states. [The Hill] “BUSINESSMAN” HAS many connotations, with the Obama SUPER Pac determined that voters in swing states will remember. “Mitt Romney is making promises [...]
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News Desk: Women Shifting Toward Romney According to New Polling [Updated]
In the presidential horserace, Romney has made sizable gains over the past month among women voters, white non-Hispanics and those younger than 50. Currently, women are evenly divided (47% Obama, 47% Romney). Last month, Obama led Romney by 18 points (56% to 38%) among women likely voters. – Pew Research Poll THE PEW POLL released [...]
Top Story — Romney Video from 1985: Bain Goal to “Harvest” Companies for Profits
MOTHER JONES strikes again, with David Corn reporting another devastating sound bite from Mitt Romney, this time its Bain Capital’s motives and Romney’s view of capitalism. Harvest the financial organs of a company, then leave it and the workers who depend on it for their livelihood dead. This goes to the heart of why workers [...]
Damage Overload: Did Mitt Romney Just Elect Barack Obama?
“He looks like Richard Nixon.” – Peggy Noonan AFTER A BLOODY primary season, where his Republican opponents revealed Romney’s lack of talent in the political arts, the Bain Captial attacks, which were launched by the lonely pro Obama SUPER Pac created by Tim Burton and Paul Begala, started filling in the man that is Mitt [...]
“Bain Of Our Existence” Website Launches
IT’S ALL things Bain and Bain Of Our Existence is now live.
The Gawker Bain Dump: Is Mitt Romney a Tax Cheat?
**UPDATED** THE BAIN DOCUMENT dump of confidential papers by Gawker earlier today is keeping finance and econ geeks, as well as political writers, busy reading or analyzing or both. Here’s one analysis that’s interesting. It comes from Victor Fleischer who is a law professor at the University of Colorado Law School and has taught at [...]
News Desk: Gawker Posts 950 Confidential Bain Docs
IT’S STARTING to rock and roll, with the latest barrage coming at Mitt Romney from Gawker that alleges to go “inside Mitt Romney’s tax-dodging Cayman schemes.” From John Cook of Gawker: Mitt Romney’s $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under federal and Massachusetts [...]
Obama Super PAC Got It Right on Bain from the Start, In New Ad Slams It Home
The Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is unveiling perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race, featuring a former worker at a Bain-owned company talking about the death of his wife after their family lost health insurance. [...] “I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by [...]
Harry Reid: Bain Investor Said Mitt Romney ‘Didn’t Pay Taxes for 10 Years’
THE HUFFINGTON POST did an interview with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In it he just happens to mention that Mr. Romney’s tax problems, including why he can’t reveal more returns, revolves around a gossipy tidbit delivered to him by an anonymous source, whom Reid won’t name, who said Romney didn’t pay taxes for a [...]
When Politics and The Movies Meet
Even GOP advisor Frank Luntz jumped into the fray. “Hollywood does it again,” he told Secrets. “[Romney] had to know all this was coming and he should have done a lot more to prepare for it.” – Romney’s new foe: Batman’s ‘Bane’ ROMNEY’S FLAT-FOOTED CAMPAIGN response to the barrage coming at him looms as one [...]
A TV Ad, and a Campaign Video
PRIORITIES USA ACTION, the Democratic Super PAC, continues hammering Mitt Romney on Bain Capital, their latest TV ad below. Team Romney slammed Pres. Obama for the words that rang out after Friday’s press conference.
Mitt Romney Thanks Pres. Clinton
“I think Bain Capital has a good and solid record,” Romney said in a CNBC interview. “I was happy to see President Clinton made a similar statement today and called my record superb.” [Romney smiles at Clinton compliment, CNN] “This is good work.” – Pres. Bill Clinton PRES. CLINTON’S COMMENTS on Mitt Romney’s Bain tenure [...]
German Voters Reject Conservative Austerity, But Will America?
WILL AMERICANS embrace austerity through Mitt Romney’s candidacy and his advocacy for Paul Ryan’s budget, just as Europe is turning away from austerity after having learned it doesn’t work? It’s the 2012 $64,000 question. Merkel’s loss comes in the wake of socialist and anti-austerity candidate François Hollande’s victory in France, with the American presidential election [...]
Mitt Romney Minute: New York Times Reports Bain Investing in Chinese State Spy Cameras
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Mitt Romney‘s Bain woes continue. Bain is reportedly pumping millions in investment with the Chinese government. Doing what? Why spying camera technology of course. The New York Times does the digging on this big story: In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind [...]
Romney Takes Big Lead in South Carolina
**UPDATED** video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Mitt Romney’s opened a whopper of a lead in South Carolina. Who says negative attacks can’t work, this time in reverse, especially when they shoot as wildly as When Mitt Romney Came To Town, and go well wide of the mark. The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina [...]
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