“Indeed, if election investments are like the stock market, a lot of billionaires just lost their shirts. American Crossroads, co-founded by GOP political guru Karl Rove, and Restore Our Future, which focused on supporting Romney in the presidential race, together spent more than $450 million, with little to show for it in the end.”
Posted on Wednesday, November 7th 2012
“The term ‘fact check’ can easily be devalued, as people throw it onto any sort of an opinion that they have.”
Posted on Tuesday, September 4th 2012
Source 
Wacky Florida Political Ad Warns of Robot Car Menace
Forget gators, zombies, and escaped pet pythons. The new menace in Florida, if this ad is to be believed, is the driverless cars that terrorize the streets, mowing down slow-moving pedestrians and smashing into things.
The spot is a last-minute attack on Jeff Brandes, a state representative from St. Petersburg running for an open state senate seat in today’s Republican primary. Brandes sponsored Google-backed legislation this year that made Florida the second state in the country to allow driverless cars on its roads. He never imagined it would become a political issue.
I, for one, welcome our new robo-car overlords.
MORE DANGEROUS THAN DRIVING.
Posted on Tuesday, August 14th 2012
Reblogged from The Atlantic
Two Dark Money Groups Outspending All Super PACs Combined
Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together, new spending estimates show.
Posted on Tuesday, August 14th 2012
Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
Source propublica.org
“86% of Americans say they do not want “political advertising tailored to your interests.” 85% agreed “If I found out that Facebook was sending me ads for political candidates based on my profile information that I had set to private, I would be angry.”
Posted on Tuesday, August 7th 2012
Source techpresident.com
“Tonight’s story in the Washington Post exposed Mitt Romney’s breathtaking hypocrisy. He has campaigned all over this country, vowing that he would be an advocate for American jobs. But tonight we learned that he made a fortune advising companies on how to outsource jobs to China and India. Maybe that explains why, despite his campaign rhetoric, Romney continues to support tax policies that would reward companies who send American jobs overseas.”
Rhetoric and reality are never the same for Mitt.
(via liberalsarecool)
The Bain fight marches on.
Obama appears to get bump among Latino voters in wake of new immigration policy. (via New Poll: Obama leads Romney among Latinos in key 2012 battleground states | Latino Decisions)
Posted on Friday, June 22nd 2012
Source latinodecisions.com
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Debates over access to abortion and birth control seemed to dominate the national conversation throughout the Republican primary, but according to a new Pew poll, those issues aren’t a major priority for most voters. For 86 percent of them, it’s still the economy, stupid.
For GOP voters, economy is still the biggest campaign issue. via @PewResearch
How did Rick Santorum win Alabama and Mississippi? Take a look at some of the most interesting exit poll data from last night’s primaries in this handy chart. See also: Lessons learned from Mississippi, Alabama exit polls.
Posted on Wednesday, March 14th 2012
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