Bloomberg reports the economy is improving the most and faster in swing states.
“The unemployment rates in a majority of the 2012 battleground states are lower than the national average as those economies improve… Those eight states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia — have a combined 101 electoral votes. Romney must win at least 79 of those electoral votes to prevail if all other states run true to their 2004 and 2008 partisan preferences.”
“A projection Moody’s made May 21 based on the model predicts an Obama victory with 303 electoral voters, with the Democrat carrying Ohio and Virginia and the Republican winning Florida.”
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“When they debate, Barack will smoke Romney,” – Sidney Barthwell, Romney’s classmate at Cranbrook and Obama’s at Harvard Law.
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Josh Marshall on why Romney is sticking with Trump:
My best guess is that they didn’t figure Trump would continue to be so nuts when they scheduled the mega-blowout fundraiser. And now that they’re here, they’re just figuring, whatever, let’s just get through tonight and it’ll be behind us.
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Romney’s iPhone campaign app misspells “America.” Can you imagine the shitstorm and conservative freakout if President Obama had done so?
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“I am a natural born citizen. My parents were American citizens. I was a citizen at birth,” – George Romney, father of Mitt, in a statement from his archives. He was born in Mexico, where his family had moved to continue to practice polygamy.
Teabaggers beg to differ. How ironic that President Obama was actually born in this country, but the father of their preferred candidate was not. Indeed, some teabaggers are saying that President Obama is not eligible to be President because both of his parents were not American, directly in contradiction to what George Romney says above. Such an argument would make Mitt Romney ineligible as well, since he is the son of a Mexican.