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Maddow: Republicans now blaming MSNBC for 2012 election losses
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow welcomed former senior adviser to President Barack Obama David Axelrod, who joined her in a discussion of election 2012 and how some Republicans are now trying to blame the loss on Maddow’s network MSNBC. She began by discussing…
Media critic David Zurawik: MSNBC spewing propaganda by hiring ex-Obama aide
TV critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun slammed MSNBC on Sunday for hiring former top Obama aide David Axelrod as a senior political analyst. “There is an advantage to having people who are in the room at key moments on this high level on your cable channel,” he said…
Top Obama aide takes the axe to his trademark mustache for charity
David Axelrod is a new man. Or, at least a slightly less hairy one. In the wake of President Barack Obama’s decisive electoral win over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), the president’s top political adviser didn’t have to shave off his hair lip. He did, after all, win his…
Obama advisor Axelrod makes mustache bet with Scarborough
President Barack Obama’s senior campaign advisor put four decades’ worth of facial hair on the line against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough Wednesday morning. After discussing the president’s re-election prospects in Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, David Axelrod vowed to shave off his mustache if Obama lost any of those states to…
Hurricane Sandy has Obama campaign worried: Axelrod
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s campaign is concerned that Hurricane Sandy could hurt the president’s re-election chances by keeping voters from going to the polls, a top strategist said Sunday. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has surged in the polls since an October 3 televised debate, eroding Obama’s slender lead in key…
Axelrod blasts Romney’s ‘penchant for secrecy’
David Axelrod, Obama’s senior campaign strategist, continued to hammer Mitt Romney on Thursday for refusing to release more tax returns. “Gov. Romney’s father, George Romney, set a standard back in the ’60s when he was running for president and he released 12 years of tax returns because he said one…
Axelrod: Ryan plan is a ‘prescription for economic catastrophe’
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod on Sunday warned that the budget plan authored by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), was a “prescription for economic catastrophe.” During an interview on NBC, host David Gregory predicted that Romney and his VP pick would claim…
Axelrod calls out Wallace over false claim about blocking military voters
Top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday called out Fox News host Chris Wallace after he repeated a claim made by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that President Barack Obama was trying to block military voters in Ohio. In a statement last week, Romney accused Obama of launching…
Axelrod: Romney would be ‘outsourcer-in-chief’
In a conference call with reporters on Friday, senior strategist to President Barack Obama David Axelrod sought to underline the differences between the economic strategies of the two candidates for president. Pointing to a Washington Post article published this morning that detailed Bain Capital’s extensive record of outsourcing jobs to…
Axelrod: Obama will be first president to be outspent by opponent
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on Thursday said he wasn’t surprised that his campaign hadn’t raised as much money as Mitt Romney’s campaign. “You pick up all the money that you couldn’t raise in the primary from Republicans who were supporting other candidates,” Axelrod told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So we…
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