We know little about President Barack Obama’s new Commission on Election Administration except for its structure, as outlined in the executive order that explains its task is to improve voting in America, and the names of its two appointed co-chairs: Obama's former counsel Bob Bauer and Republican attorney Ben Ginsberg, who worked for Mitt Romney. [...]
The 2012 elections were, by all accounts, a turning point in American politics. President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney fought a grueling ground-war for the hearts and minds of American voters.
The persistent, noisy refrain that the Republican Party is "out of touch" with mainstream America continues. The phrase and its many variants have been repeated in public opinion polls and throughout the liberal media from the moment Mitt Romney solemnly waved goodbye from the presidential campaign trail and went back ...
There’s another controversy over Mother Jones magazine, a secret tape, and a prominent Republican speaking in private. And like with its publication of Mitt Romney's infamous "47 percent" comments, Mother Jones will probably cite a Supreme Court decision in publishing the recording.
We Americans are disgusted with our government. We ranked fixing "corruption in Washington" number 2 on Gallup's poll of top presidential priorities in 2012. Yet Washington doesn't seem to care. Neither President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney even mentioned "corruption" as an issue that their administration would address. And it will take a lot more work by us to get them to pay attention.
Mitt Romney made himself the butt of a lot of jokes during the 2012 Presidential Election when he insisted that the Republican Party's solution to America’s immigration problem was self-deportation ; however, people on the right did their best not to ridicule him at the time. The moratorium has been lifted, apparently. While appearing on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of ...
