Plus, the "job destroyers" on Obama's own jobs council.

After a few days fighting the Bain wars, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney pivot today — but in telling directions.  While Obama tries talking about senior citizens and veterans, Romney pulls the debate right back to the economy in his new ad, “Stories from the Obama Economy,” which could have been shortened to just [...]

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An LBJ moment?

Barack Obama  had no national primary challengers in his second nomination race in most states, including Kentucky.  Who knew it would still be a tough choice for voters?  Kentucky voters in the Democratic primary preferred the empty slot to the empty suit, apparently: About two out of every five Democratic voters in Tuesday’s presidential primary [...]

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Oh my.

Time for another whodunit, or more accurately, whatdunit in this presidential election.  Two months ago, Quinnipiac gave Barack Obama a statistically significant if not entirely comfortable seven-point lead in the key swing state of Florida at 49/42.  Now, after two months of Bain attacks, gay marriage flip-flops, a visa to the daughter of Cuban dictator [...]

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Price.

If you think life is tough, Chicagoans, just consider the hard life of … Barack Obama.  Angry that the NATO conference tied up traffic for hours?  That’s nothing, says President Obama.  Why, he had it so tough that he had to stay at a five-star hotel.  And for that, Chicago should be grateful, Obama explained [...]

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Warner backpedaling from Bain attacks now.

You get three guesses … and the first two don’t count. An analysis by The Hill of data from Open Secrets shows that Barack Obama got more than $3.5 million from donors who work in private-equity or hedge-fund firms in 2008, almost twice as much as John McCain raised in the same industry: President Obama [...]

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Looks like ...

Will the strategy of highlighting Mitt Romney’s track record at Bain Capital do more to damage the Republican nominee, or Barack Obama?  A poll released yesterday by Rasmussen suggests that it might do more damage to Obama’s re-election efforts than it will to his challenger.  Only 33% of a sample of 1,000 likely voters say [...]

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"We're not questioning the private equity business, in general." "But you are!"

Anderson Cooper interviewed Obama super-PAC chief Ben LaBolt on the new Bain Capital attack strategy, and the only enlightenment that results from the exchange is an understanding of why LaBolt no longer works in the White House media room. LaBolt refused to even acknowledge Cooper’s repeated questions of how Barack Obama and his team can [...]

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We could use some Badgers.

If Wisconsin turns into the Left’s Waterloo two weeks from today, Mitt Romney’s campaign may take a fresh look at making it Barack Obama’s as well.  The Wall Street Journal analyzes the impact that a defeat in the Badger State will have on Democrats and the unions, and the new talk of Wisconsin being the [...]

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Ix-nay on the ain-Bay, arack-Bay.

Ed Rendell joins Harold Ford and Cory Booker as critics within Barack Obama’s own party of his electoral strategy of demonizing private equity.  In a BuzzFeed article that focuses on the larger disconnect between Obama and Democratic Party institutions, Zeke Miller gets the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania — a state critical to Obama’s re-election [...]

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... in a sample with Republicans at only 22%.

The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows Barack Obama only three points ahead of Mitt Romney, 49/46, within the margin of error.  The poll also shows Obama’s advantage among women dissipating, and the President falling further behind his challenger on the economy.  All of this is rather amazing, given the manner in which Republicans keep [...]

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K Street bonanza.

Remember when Barack Obama pledged to keep lobbyists from dictating outcomes in his administration?  Good times, good times.  It only took a fortnight for Obama’s promise to become a joke when Jake Tapper asked Robert Gibbs to produce the “waivers” for lobbyist appointees to Obama’s administration, which numbered in the dozens by early March.  The [...]

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Billion-dollar bust.

Cue the sharp, staccato violin music, the wail of ghostly sopranos, and M. Night Shyamalan.  Is it possible that the vaunted billion-dollar campaign of Barack Obama might stumble into second place to Mitt Romney on fundraising?  Chris Cillizza writes at the Washington Post that the scenario of an incumbent falling short in official fundraising to [...]

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War on wimminses backfire.

As a general in the War on Women, Barack Obama might be best compared to one who inadvertently fires on his own positions.  Team Obama has tried to exploit the usual gender gap in national elections by claiming to fight on behalf of women.  Earlier this month the campaign rolled out the creepy “Life of [...]

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Fair game.

The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate’s former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other’s high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate be far behind? In a campaign year when voters have declared the economy their top concern, Obama and [...]

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This might be bad

Voters this year will be treated to a pair of mutually exclusive pictures when it comes to the economy. What’s going to happen in the short term? What is coming our way further down the road? Obama will tell you that Bush wrecked the economy, but we are slowly but surely climbing back out of [...]

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1. Mitt Romney Talks With Florida Foreclosure Victims, Encourages Strategic Defaults and Principle Reductions
2. NY Times Editorial | Mitt Romney on Fraudclosures
3. Mitt Romney on Fraudclosures | Do Like Bondi Does and “Prosecute the institutions where there has been fraud”

Disappointment.

In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he’s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic. In Mogadishu, a former teacher wishes he had [...]

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Awkward

Somebody should make sure that the White House staff gets the place all spruced up and sets out the good china for dinner, because the Obamas are expecting company. And who is the very special guest? None other than the president’s predecessor. George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to the [...]

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1. Obama Prepares for War? | Executive Order – National Defense Resources Preparedness
2. Foreclosure Fraud Defense Connecticut – U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee v. Toni Ascenzia et al
3. 1st Annual Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Symposium at the PGA National Resort & Spa

The turning of the tide?

Last month, House Speaker John Boehner said that holding onto the House GOP majority will be a “real challenge,” remarking that there’s about “a 1-in-3 chance that we could lose.” His sentiments were likely designed to drum up a little urgency to encourage people to keep making donations more than anything else, but there is [...]

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War on ... whom?

When a candidate wants to hammer a message, he takes every opportunity he can to do so, and let nothing stand in his way.  Barack Obama, however, takes it to a whole new level.  Deciding in February that he needed to keep hammering on the supposed Republican “war on women” after pushing his HHS contraception/sterilization/abortifacient [...]

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Florida folly.

Most political experts figure that Florida will be a close-run state in the presidential election this year, and with 29 electoral votes, it could make or break a candidacy.  Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will spend a lot of time in the state, attempting to gain the edge on a state that Obama won [...]

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Us darn humans and our earth-ravaging ways.

The end is nigh! Or so our esteemed environmental prophets are telling us… yet again. Humans will need two Earths to support our lifestyles by 2030 because we are draining the world’s resources so quickly, a new report has warned. Produced by the World Wildlife Fund, the Zoological Society of London, the Global Footprint Network [...]

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Plus, the disconnect between Obama and his allies with mainstream America.

While Barack Obama’s fundraising dropped 20% from March to April, Mitt Romney’s tripled — and then some, according to his campaign disclosure for April’s fundraising.  Team Romney, partnered with the RNC, hauled in more than $40 million, just $3 million less than Obama: Mitt Romney almost matched President Obama in fund-raising during April after securing his party’s presidential [...]

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But Obama loves JP Morgan.

Why did fundraising for Team Obama drop so precipitously in April?  The Boston Globe provides one possible answer.  In 2008, Barack Obama attracted a lot of support from the banking industry.  This time around, they have deserted Obama in favor of Mitt Romney (via News Alert): When the head of JPMorgan Chase met with shareholders [...]

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"I guarantee you, if John McCain had been President ..."

Not exactly a stunner, you say?  Well, you’d be right, but it’s probably worse than what Jones admits here, too.  Not only did they pull their punches towards the President in 2010, they tried to shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon spill to the Bush administration, even though Barack Obama and his Interior Secretary [...]

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Swing states.

And that’s just what they’ll spend in a month: An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day. Crossroads GPS plans to open the effort [...]

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From toss-up to toss-out.

Eight days ago, North Carolina voters added the previously existing statutory language defining marriage as between one man and one woman to their state constitution.  The very next day, Barack Obama — who won North Carolina by 0.3% in 2008 — endorsed the legalization of same-sex marriage.  A new Rasmussen poll shows the predictable consequences, [...]

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Harbingers?

A month ago, the combined haul from the Barack Obama campaign and the DNC came to $53 million, a level that didn’t keep pace with 2008 Democratic fundraising, but still gave Team O some bragging rights for the improvement over a $45 million February.  According to their announcement this morning, the Obama/DNC effort couldn’t even [...]

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