Romney Paid Zero Taxes in the ’90’s

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Harry Reid is too cagey a politician to get dragged into a pissing match without the goods. Now the GOP has taken to their fainting couch over Reid's assertions, but they can't back up their side with anything other than cry-baby hissy fits, while the Democrats get to play the badasses for once. The fact that story continues to back Romney into a deeper and deeper corner can be confirmed by the ever more desperate squeals from the GOP.

The NRA earns seven more notches

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If only these victims had been armed....
Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism, officials said Sunday. The shootings in Oak Creek, Wis., left seven dead, including the gunman, and three critically wounded. One of the injured was a police officer who was expected to survive.

Wilmington West Side Candidates Night

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Wilmington candidates for Mayor and City Council will be at this event Monday night, August 6 that specifically focuses on Wilmington's West Side. Sponsored by Westside Grows, this event is meant to give residents of the West Side of Wilmington a chance to hear how candidates will help them to address their specific issues and in how to help them to implement their Neighborhood Revitalization Plan.

The Polling Report [8.3.12]

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The big news over the last couple of days since our last polling report was the Pew poll showing a 10 point lead for Obama. Pew is a respected pollster, but this poll is probably an outlier, only because it feels like a 5-6 point race to me, with Obama in the lead. If Obama does win by 10 points, then he is heading for a massive 1984-1972-1964 landslide where he wins 40 states and the Dems retake the House by 30 seats.

Delaware Political Weekly: July 28-August 3, 2012

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Signs (literally and figuratively) point to 'yes'.  This week, the black clergy (20 in all) endorsed Williams. This followed previous endorsements by the Fraternal Order of Police and Wilmington firefighters. A recent drive around the Broom Street/Baynard Boulevard area revealed not only a lot of Williams signs, but many lawns sporting both Williams signs and/or Gordon and Potter signs. Meaning that Williams has, at the least, developed synergies and perhaps working alliances with these candidates. The Montgomery campaign appears to have become dependent on former Republicans (Hal Haskell? Really?), and I'm not sure what's happened to the Kelley campaign, which had lots of energy a couple of months back.  All I see is that, in the case of Williams, the trend is his friend, and that's not the case for the only other electable candidates. I'm inclined to think that Tom Gordon has taken control of the NCCo. Executive race. This is one case where the AFL-CIO endorsement helps. I think that, in part, it reflects dissatisfaction amongst county employees who swallowed a 2.5% pay cut while Paul Clark was adding on an army of 'executive assistants', at least one of whom also acts as his chief fundraiser while deciding which projects move forward and which ones don't.