Laundering Lucy: What are the odds that the “Lucy” interviewed by NPR as a Latino woman-on-the street disaffected because Romney hasn’t endorsed the DREAM Act isn’t the same “Lucy” who disrupted Romney’s speech?
Romney’s speech was interrupted by a college student from New York named Lucy, an undocumented immigrant. “Governor Romney,” she yelled, twice, before the crowd broke into applause to drown out her words. She was ushered outside and joined More »
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Facebook’s IPO launched at $38 a share, and the stock is now trading at $32, and the company and its bankers stand accused of having “hyped up” the stock.** There are lawsuits and hearings.
GM’s post-bailout IPO launched at $33 a share, and the stock is now trading at $22, after being repeatedly touted by the highest officials of the U.S. government. Yet the suckersinvestors who bought it More »
Michael Tomasky on why losing 42% of the vote to little-known John Wolfe in Arkansas and to “uncommitted” in Kentucky is really good news for Obama! … Just kidding. (I think.) … Sean Trende explains why it’s bad news. …
NPR’s world: It turns out that 42% anti-Obama vote in Kentucky was really a plea for fewer illegal immigrant deportations! Who knew? … P.S.: That makes only two segments on “All Things Considered” today about immigration (and the need to appeal to Latinos). A light day. … P.P.S.: If you listen to NPR you could be excused for thinking that immigration is the most important issue for voters in 2012. … More »
You fell for that slick-talking stranger once … : Adwoman Judith Grey on the subliminal anti-Obama pitch Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS is making to women. …
Romney’s Bain experience may or may not give him credence as a private sector “job creator.” But is that really the main reason it’s relevant? Doesn’t it more obviously give him credence as a man who can cut the inefficiencies out of a bloated federal bureaucracy (that still doesn’t seem to think it faces in any kind of spending crisis). … Update: I see D. Brooks beat me to this point. But A. More »
So it’s unanimous, then– Thomas Edsall was right: In the aftermath of Obama’s gay marriage flip, pundits seem to have concluded that Obama’s Democratic party has indeed given up on white working class voters. They’ve been dropped from the winning coalition, which is now composed of three main groups: “young people, college-educated whites (especially women), and minorities,” according to Ron Brownstein. Bill Galston agrees. Ruy Teixeira–who once wrote a book More »
Warren Buffett has bought $256.5 million of GM stock for his firm Berkshire Hathaway. Did he buy it to make money, or to help Obama**? Or is he, in an ominous corporatist mixture of the two, investing in Obama? Does even Buffett know for sure at this point?
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**-by showing confidence in the firm and buoying its embarrassing stock price at a time when Obama’s campaign is touting his administration’s bailout as a success.
Ex-Gov. Wilder of Virginia thinks the old Bradley Effect (in which whites are scared to tell pollsters they’ll vote against the black candidate) is dead because whites are now shameless and perfectly willing to tell anyone they’ll vote against the black candidate. I suspect he’s generalizing too freely from the ability of tireless New York Times journalists to find a few subjects willing to go on the record saying they won’t vote for Obama More »
What do you bet that if John Edwards is acquitted–even if a guilty verdict is reversed on appeal–he’ll try to bill that result as a “vindication” that lets him revive at least a small part of his previous career? That’s one of the main problems with this misguided proscution. Not only does it potential criminalize vast, vaguely defined swaths of previously “gray area” behavior. It gives Edwards his best chance yet (in his own mind, More »
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