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Blunt says to keep an eye on Virginia
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, a Republican who is Mitt Romney's point person in Congress, doesn't think Ohio or Florida will be the main states to watch on election night. He will have his eyes on Virginia.
In an interview at the annual Reuters Washington Summit, Blunt was asked which state was the one to monitor in the run-up to the Nov. 6 election between President Barack Obama and Romney.
"Virginia," he said. "If I was watching one state on election night, it would be a state I'd [watch]."
"I don't think Romney has to carry Virginia, but if he carries Virginia he's the president," Blunt predicted.
from Bernd Debusmann:
What if Iran gets the bomb?
The West worries too much about the prospect of Iran going nuclear. If it did get the bomb, the Middle East would probably become a more stable region. So says Kenneth Waltz, a veteran scholar, in an essay in one of America's most influential magazines.
"Why Iran Should get the Bomb," says the headline in Foreign Affairs, the house organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York think tank. "Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability."
from David Cay Johnston:
America’s long slope down
A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest rates and made more of the manufactured goods we use.
The numbers since the turn of the millennium point to even worse times ahead if we stay the course. Let's look at the official numbers in today's dollars and then what can be done to change course.
from Tales from the Trail:
Conservative group parodies Dos Equis beer commercials in anti-Obama ad campaign
Conservative political group RightChange came out on Tuesday with a pejorative spoof of the hit Dos Equis beer commercials that replaces "The Most Interesting Man in the World" with a superlatively arrogant President Barack Obama.
Instead of ticking off the unusual, adventurous feats of the world's most interesting man ("At museums, he’s allowed to touch the art; sharks have a week dedicated to him; he once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels"), the roughly 1-minute grainy, black-and-white montage shows the President identified by a baritone narrator as "The Most Arrogant Man in the World."
from Bernd Debusmann:
The world expected more from Obama
The 2012 global performance scorecard is in and the grade for Barack Obama is "failed to meet expectations."
To varying degrees, that's the view in each and every of 20 foreign countries -- some close U.S. allies, some not - whose citizens were polled for the Pew Global Attitudes Project, a widely-respected survey that has tracked the standing of the United States, its president, and assorted foreign leaders every year for the past decade. The Washington-based Pew Research Center polled more than 26,000 people.
from Tales from the Trail:
Back at home, President Obama, family attend wedding
President Barack Obama got a brief respite from the euro zone debt crisis and an intensifying general election campaign on Saturday while attending the wedding of a top aide's daughter with his family in his hometown.
The wedding of White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's daughter, Laura, on a balmy night brought Obama administration allies and friends to Jarrett's home in a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
from Tales from the Trail:
Washington Extra – Dimon jubilee
Jamie Dimon managed to turn a multibillion-dollar trading loss into a winning moment.
The CEO of JPMorgan came sailing into the Senate office building this morning with a smile, and gave a pitch-perfect performance in explaining how a small group of traders in its London office screwed up a hedging strategy so badly that they lost at least $2 billion.
from Tales from the Trail:
Pro-Obama super PAC, labor group launch $4 million Spanish ad campaign
A super PAC supporting Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the nation's largest health care and property services labor union on Monday launched a Spanish language television advertisement campaign highlighting "working Latinos’ reactions" to certain statements presumptive nominee Mitt Romney has made on the campaign trail.
The $4 million campaign, "Mitt Romney: En Sus Propias Palabras” (Mitt Romney: In His Own Words), is billed by Priorities USA Action and the Service Employees International Union as one of "the largest ever independent Spanish-language campaigns" and will run on TV and radio in Colorado, Nevada, and Florida.
from Tales from the Trail:
Will Election 2012 be another Florida 2000?
The 2008 U.S. presidential election was the first in 12 years in which large numbers of Americans did not believe the result was unfairly influenced by the machinations of politically biased state election officials. But it was also the first in a dozen years that was not close, as Democrat Barack Obama cruised to a blowout victory over Republican John McCain.
With 2012 shaping up to be another tight contest, experts say controversy is likely this year, especially given that 33 of the 50 state election authorities are led by partisan politicians, who are free to work for candidates' campaigns.
from Tales from the Trail:
President Obama speaks about the U.S. and European economies
President Obama will speak about the U.S. economy and the situation in Europe at 10:15am ET on Friday.
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