TPM has a great little analysis of the effect Romney's '47%' video has had on his Presidential campaign. In short, it's not good: The snap shot is that 57% of independent voters had an unfavorable view of Romney's outburst (according to a Washington Post poll) - the exact ...read more

The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via the USA Today): Americans don't believe GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney hit a home run with his choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, with more of the public giving him lower marks than high ones. ...read more

By Robert Parry: The newly minted Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is placing a big – and some might say cynical – bet that the stereotype of the “greedy geezer” is real, that Americans now eligible for Medicare or close to it don’t care that the popular health ...read more

While the Romney campaign is aggressively fighting back against reports that their candidate's tenure at Bain Capital went on for longer than he once claimed, a document filed by Romney in 2000 could prove extremely detrimental to his run at the Presidency. The Jan. 3rd 2000 ...read more

From the LA Times: By calling on Republicans to approve a one-year extension of tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year, President Obama escalated the election-year focus on taxes, emphasizing a key distinction between the two parties and seeking to create a ...read more

From the Guardian: Florida senator Marco Rubio is the clear favourite to become Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running-mate, according to associate professor Jody Baumgartner who runs a model to help predict vice-presidential picks. Baumgartner's forecast comes as ABC ...read more

By Bob Cesca: It happened for the first time today. The thought occurred to me that President Obama could lose in November. I was watching Paul Krugman's appearance on This Week, and the disconnect between what is true and what is fantasy -- dreamed up by the Romney campaign ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: The important thing to keep in mind as you watch Mitt Romney's brand new campaign ad -- the one that officially kicks off his general election push for the White House -- is that everything you're seeing, and not seeing, is intentional. We've witnessed some ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Mitt Romney has recently added a new digital audio file to his positronic neural net: President Obama is an "economic lightweight." Naturally, it comes from the same genius who thought the "Is corn an amber wave of grain?" joke made some kind of sense and was ...read more

By Ben Cohen: Michael Scherer has a great article in Time Magazine on how much each of the Republican candidates spent vs. how many votes they have received in the primaries thus far. The breakdown: How much has the entire Romney campaign spent per vote received? $17.14, which ...read more