NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points But by virtually every other metric, registered voters appear to favor the president. -Looking out for the middle class? Mr. Obama (49% to 33%) -Being knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency? Mr. Obama (48% to 32%) -Being a good commander in [...]
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On the Coveted Independent Voter
From Burns & Haberman, my latest favorite reads. Veteran Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg cautions against misreading the desires of independent voters as wanting, essentially, a policy stand-down as part of some large umbrella… “[David] Brooks and some of these other analysts view independents as monolithic, they think these voters want a post-partisan world of rational [...]
How do you spell enthusiasm in the age of Obama? RELIEF.
This is what happens when Candidate Obama is unleashed. From Art, who handles the movement progressive beat and runs a Democratic group in Texas. color me relieved frankly by his debt details… Relief isn’t exactly a rousing call to action. Jonathan Cohn has the best synopsis on the Medicare cuts Obama’s proposing in the health [...]
Paul Ryan’s ‘Class Warfare’ Whine
Bring on “class warfare” and may the Democrats lean into it. I guess Mr. Ryan missed the latest poverty statistics. No one is surprised that a Republican sees no virtue in a millionaire minimum tax. Representative Paul D. Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a leading proponent of cutting spending on benefit programs [...]
‘Buffett Rule’ Provides Cover for Obama
President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials. – Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires Well, he couldn’t call it [...]
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