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Campaign scrambles after Romney admits Obama didn’t raise taxes
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign was forced to quickly issue a clarification on Tuesday after their candidate admitted that President Barack Obama had not raised taxes during his first four years in office. “I admit this, he has one thing he did not do in his first four years…
Ann Romney shot video vowing to never campaign again
Appearing on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on Tuesday, Ann Romney claimed that she vowed in 2008 to never join a presidential campaign again, but Mitt convinced her anyway. “Four years ago I made a video tape,” she said. “On the video tape, I looked into the camera and…
Ryan buys hunting gear for 10-year-old daughter in Ohio
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took a break from campaigning in Ohio on Tuesday to do some shopping for his 10-year-old daughter’s upcoming hunting trip. “I’m taking Liza deer hunting in deer season,” Ryan told reporters. “She going to get to go hunt for deer this year for the…
Colbert: Romney supporters beginning to cycle through ’5 stages of grief’
On Tuesday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert discussed the steadily worsening prospects of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s bid for the presidency. A new poll in the National Journal shows that President Barack Obama leads Romney in the polls by 7 points, garnering 50 percent of…
Jon Stewart on Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy: He appears to be getting dumber
On his show Tuesday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart said President Barack Obama was the luckiest man on the planet because he was running against Mitt Romney. The political comedian chronicled the latest contradictory and hypocritical statements of the Republican presidential nominee, claiming that “the closer we get to…
Maddow blasts ‘race-based campaign’ of Sen. Scott Brown
On her show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow slammed Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts for criticizing his opponent’s racial heritage. She noted that at their first televised debate, Brown accused Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren of lying about being a Native American because she didn’t look like “a person…
Robert Reich: Romney is the avatar of the upper-class
University of California professor Robert Reich on Tuesday disputed Republican claims that the wealthy were job creators. “We have not had this degree of income inequality in America for 80 years and by some measures 100 years,” he told Current TV host Cenk Uygur. “Go back to the Gilded Age…
Protester defaces anti-Palestinian ad in New York City subway
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested on Tuesday after defacing an anti-Palestinian advertisement in a New York City subway station. During the incident, which was caught on video by the New York Post, photographer Pamela Hall attempted to protect the ad from Eltahawy. As Eltahawy tried to spray the ad…
Romney suggests teachers unions should be prohibited from campaign donations
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared at a multi-day “Education Nation” event co-hosted by NBC News in New York City at the infamous public library to say that he favored school choice, controversial merit-based teacher pay and even went so far as to suggest that teachers unions should not be allowed…
Conservative radio host: Obama ‘leading in the food stamp voters poll’
Conservative radio host Lars Larson on Tuesday dismissed President Barack Obama’s growing lead in the polls but insisted that he was sure the president “was leading in the food stamp voters poll.” After weeks of bad polling numbers indicating that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s chances of winning were slipping…
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