The Republican Convention: Hyprocrisy and God’s Wrath.

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The Republican Convention is next week in Tampa, Florida. On Saturday and Sunday before the start of the convention, Tropical Storm (and perhaps by then, Hurricane) Isaac will be bearing down on the GOP's convention hall. I want to discern the symbolism of this, somehow implying that God's wrath is being evidenced by the coincendental events. Where is Pat Robertson when you really need him? I guess I will have to settle for Dana Milbank

The Polling Report [8.22.12]

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The big poll from yesterday was the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, that found that, despite Mitt Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, the race remains unchanged. The poll found Obama leading Romney 48 to 44, but the more interesting result are that Obama leads by 22 points on the question about which candidate cares about average people. Further, the GOP's favorability gap is -9 (36% favorable, 45% unfavorable) while the Dems are at +2 (42% favorable, 40% unfavorable). That's not good for Republicans. These are the same numbers from prior wave years in 2006 and 2008. Here is our new map, reflecting changes from new polls in Virginia and Wisconsin:

Romney responds to critics

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On how economic his policies will affect America's middle class, Mitt Romney had this to say to his critics:
The middle class is asking for it. Just looks at what the middle class goes out wearing. The middle class is inciting these policies.

The Republican War on Women Redux

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The Akins spectacle serves to remind women everywhere about the GOP War on Women -- the one they claim isn't happening -- and further opens the curtain on the undercurrent of lies and misinformation designed to create the fear and loathing that only serves this far right wing's destructive tendencies.  Most of the GOP -- including Rmoney -- is backing away from Akins in the most public way possible.  The NRSC is pulling it's promised support as is Karl Rove's secretive PAC.  They've got Artur Davis out warning the GOP that if Akins stays in, President Obama will win Missouri.  Akins is staying in the limelight with his I'm Not Quitting campaign and his I'm Sorry campaign.  Most folks are spending today trying to guess whether or not Akins will leave the race, but take a look at the groups supporting this guy.  The Family Research Council, Missouri (so-called) Right-to-Life and the Susan B. Anthony group, along with even more reminders that Akins and Paul Ryan were at the frontline to try to redefine rape.

The Polling Report [8.21.12]

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I have gone through all the latest national and state polls from the past week, and they are below. In some of the states, you will see that the trend is to Romney as last week was his bounce week from his choice of Paul Ryan as the next losing Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Yet, the bounce week is over and Obama remains in a dominant position:

Million, billion… whatever OR “Dr” John Stapleford is an unprincipled douchebag volume XXVII

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Dear Readers, We would like to cite an editing error in yesterday's newsletter article in which the amount of the federal loan guarantee to Fisker was misstated as $529 billion. The amount of the federal loan guarantee was $529 million. This has been corrected in the article below:
When you are a partisan talking points mill posing as a "think tank" mistakes get made.

Prove It!

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Mitt "Because I said so" Romney: The fascination with taxes I've paid I find to be very small-minded compared to the broad issues we face. But I did go back…