On Monday Rachel Maddow discussed polling figures for the GOP Convention, the failure of the convention compared to others, and the failure of the GOP and Romney to follow-up on the marginal momentum gained. Maddows discussed the fact that historically candidates capitalize on the momentum generated by their conventions noting that “This is the point at […]
Lilly Ledbetter, women’s equality leader and namesake of the ‘Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act’, spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention about her experience fighting for equal pay, her eventual defeat in court, and the passage of her namesake act, which was the first bill signed into law by President Obama. You can watch the […]
Progressives are hoping that if Republicans won’t listen to President Obama on the Buffett Rule, then maybe they’ll listen to President Reagan. The Center for American Progress unearthed video of Reagan making the case in 1985 for closing tax loopholes on the rich in strikingly similar terms to Obama, even leading an audience to cheers […]
Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain formally endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy for president back on January 4th of this year stating: “I am really here for one reason, and one reason only, and that is to make sure that we make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States of America,” according to a […]
Democratic Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, sat down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie and discussed Ronald Reagan’s famous campaign question regarding whether Americans were better off in the present than they were four years ago and how that same question is answered today. When asked about Mitt Romney, Warren replied: “The way I look at this is […]