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POLL: OBAMA BLOWING OUT ROMNEY AMONG WOMEN, LEADING IN SWING STATES
From USA Today
In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points. The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters...
Arlene Holt Baker: Obama Wins Backing Of AFL-CIO
From NPR
On Tuesday, President Obama received the endorsement of the nation's largest organized labor organization, the AFL-CIO. Collective bargaining has been under attack in several states, which has drained union resources. But labor leaders say that's made them more determined than ever to keep Obama in the White House.
Doubts on...
Just when you thought that the attacks on working people couldn’t get any worse, another Republican has come along to prove that point wrong. Meet New Hampshire Republican State Representative J.R. Hoell, who has filed a bill to repeal lunch breaks for people in New Hampshire. Seriously? No lunch breaks?
As Pat Garofalo at Think Progress...
Quote of the Day
"I love the fact that Sheldon put in about $10 million with Gingrich and I put in a lot less with Rick. I like to say I'm an investor and Sheldon is a casino guy."
-- Santorum Super PAC financier Foster Freiss, in an interview on Bloomberg TV, poking fun at Gingrich Super PAC backer Sheldon Adelson.
Obama's Brush with Political Disaster
From The New...
Romney, the Rich and the Rest
From Charles Blow at the New York Times:
Does that sound like a man trying to “fix” our social safety nets? Absolutely not. Romney is so far up the beanstalk that he can no longer see the ground.
Then let’s take the fact that a report last month by the Tax Policy Center found that his tax plan would increase after-tax income for millionaires...
