The Senate Thursday cleared the way for the debate on the first piece of major gun control legislation to be considered in that chamber in two decades. With families of victims of the Newtown massacre watching silently from the chamber, the Senate thwarted a threatened filibuster with a vote of 68 to 31 and will … Continue reading »
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Our President is Fighting for the Middle Class
· President Obama won re-election based on the vision and plans he presented to the American people. · The American people were given a choice between the same top-down policies that failed us in the past and ones that grow the middle class. The middle class won. And the President will continue to fight … Continue reading »
Three Days Out, Romney Is Desperate as President Obama Is Leading Early Vote in the Key Battleground States that Will Help Decide This Election
With three days to Election Day, President Obama has the math and Romney has the myth. We’ve been building our historic ground game for years and it’s going to win this election. Romney is down everywhere he needs to be up and all he has left is desperation and dishonesty. · We have an early-vote … Continue reading »
Romney to talk about his faux bipartisanship tonight
Romney’s Failure to Reach Across the Aisle - Mitt Romney’s campaign is telegraphing that he’ll talk about his faux bipartisanship tonight. The debate hasn’t even started yet, and they’re already pushing an argument that is completely divorced from reality. The truth is Romney didn’t reach across the aisle in Massachusetts like he claims. Instead his … Continue reading »
ROMNEY’S ENDLESS RESETS: Romney Resets His Campaign Nearly Every Week, But He Still Won’t Tell Us His Plans Because He Knows They Would Hurt the Middle Class
Romney is constantly trying to refocus his campaign – yesterday it was on foreign policy, today it’s on agriculture – but he’s still hasn’t offered any specific ideas to move our country forward. Mitt Romney has reset his campaign over and over again, but still hasn’t told voters how he’s going to move our … Continue reading »
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Massachusetts for Obama – Canvassing and GOTV training info
Canvassing Columbus Day Weekend: We will be canvassing all three days during Columbus Day weekend, October 6th-8th. Click here to find events. GOTV trainings: We will be organizing three GOTV trainings on Saturday, October 13 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. This will be our last opportunity to be together as a group before … Continue reading »
ROMNEY INSULTS, WRITES OFF HALF AMERICA: Behind closed doors with a group of his wealthy donors, Mitt Romney disdainfully insults and writes off half of the country.
As a candidate for President of the United States, Mitt Romney shockingly declared to a group of wealthy donors that nearly half of the American people – 47 percent – view themselves as “victims,” entitled to handouts, and unwilling to take “personal responsibility” for their lives. It’s hard to be president of all the people … Continue reading »
SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters
From Mother Jones – more secret video – this one’s a winner. When he doesn’t know a camera’s rolling, the GOP candidate shows his disdain for half of America. —By David Corn | Mon Sep. 17, 2012 1:00 PM PDT 1409 During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small … Continue reading »
Latest Political Update
Obama Campaign Says It Beat Romney in Fund-Raising for August New York Times // Nicholas Confessore 12:51 a.m. | Updated The Obama campaign announced early Monday that it had raised $114 million in August, saying it had brought in more than the Romney campaign for the first time since April. That number was released … Continue reading »
From our inbox: No, Romney and Ryan don’t really want a `great debate’ By Greg Sargent, and more….
The Morning Plum: No, Romney and Ryan don’t really want a `great debate’ By Greg Sargent, WashPo, August 20 Ever since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, it’s been widely claimed that this ensures a “great debate” pitting two starkly different ideological visions over the future against one another. But it’s now clear that the … Continue reading »
NEWS CLIPS
Paul Ryan targeted on women’s issues Politico // Maggie Haberman, Emily Schiltheis and Lois Romano Paul Ryan co-sponsored a federal “personhood” amendment. He voted to defund Planned Parenthood. He opposes all abortions, except when the life of the mother is at risk. And he supports a federal bill requiring women to get an … Continue reading »
WELFARE REFORM: Romney’s Latest Ad is Hypocritical and False; The President’s Waivers Require States to Strengthen Welfare-to-Work Requirements By 20 Percent
Mitt Romney’s latest ad is hypocritical and false, criticizing the President for the same kind of welfare reform flexibility that Romney supported as governor of Massachusetts. President Obama’s waivers let states build welfare-to-work programs that are best for them while strengthening work requirements by 20 percent. Romney would’ve gone further by waiving time limits, … Continue reading »
Extending Tax Cuts For Middle Class Families
Today the President called on Congress to extend the middle class tax cuts for the 98 percent of Americans making less than $250,000 for another year. If they don’t, a typical middle-class family of four will see its taxes go up by $2,200 on January 1st. It would be a big blow to working families, … Continue reading »
President Obama’s Plan Could Create A Million Jobs Now While Romney’s Plan Could Cause Another Recession
It takes time to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. President Obama has a plan to restore the middle class and create up to a million jobs now – one Mitt Romney opposes and Republican leaders have blocked. Romney claims he has a better path, but independent economists have concluded it … Continue reading »
Romney Senior Advisor Eric Ferhnstrom: Mandate is a Penalty on free riders who can afford coverage, Not a Tax #obamacare
Romney senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom broke with Republican leaders in Congress today and agreed with President Obama that the health care law’s individual responsibility requirement is a penalty on free riders who can afford coverage – not a tax. Republican “Tax” Deception: The vast majority of Americans who responsibly carry coverage are completely unaffected by this … Continue reading »
