Posts tagged “Politico”
Can we trust the media to accurately report on the effects of Citizens United?
Politico is running a news article today titled, “TV stations love super PACs,” which examines the price differential between a candidate’s ad buy and a Super PACs. The article notes that: Stations have to provide discounted rates to qualifying candidates running for all public offices. But they don’t have to give those same breaks to the [...]
Poll Shows Obama Leading Republican Candidates
A new Politico/GWU poll lays out some hard numbers that show the difficulty a real Republican candidate will have when running against President Obama. Via Jed Lewison at DailyKos: N = 1,000 Registered “likely” voters Margin of error ±3.1% Field Dates: November 6-9, 201 President Obama: 43 Generic Republican: 43 President Obama: 49 [...]
Cain v. The Media
In a recent interview with Fox News Herman Cain’s Chief of Staff, Mark Block, stated that Herman Cain’s campaign was considering suing Politico.com. On the scandal, Block said, “we have ran a different kind of campaign and we are not going to play by the rules that the media has established. The fact of the matter [...]
A Complete Mess
The Cain camp’s handling of the allegations of sexual harassment have been downright bad. Since the release of the Politico piece that broke the story of the allegations, the messages coming from the Cain campaign have been contradictory and unconvincing. Most recently they have taken to blaming the Perry campaign for releasing the information that led to the Politico story. [...]
Perhaps they should leave office
Politico (10/26/2011): Sen. Lindsey Graham is so embarrassed about the 9 percent approval rating — released Tuesday night in a New York Times/CBS poll — that he’s going incognito. “It’s so bad sometimes I tell people I’m a lawyer,” the South Carolina Republican told POLITICO on Wednesday. “I don’t want to be associated with a [...]
Shattering Illusions About Tea Party Freshmen
A few gee-whiz’s at Politico decided to chart the voting patterns of Tea Party freshmen against the voting patterns of veteran Republicans and found that the Tea Partiers aren’t as unkempt as they let on: On 100 key House votes, Republican freshmen rarely stand out, bucking the party line at almost the same rate as [...]
Depends on the Definition of Accessible
A few days ago, Politico ran an article that detailed how many Republican Congressmen are opting out of holding open Town Hall forums and instead are charging their constituents upwards of $35 to attend private gatherings. For however much Congressional Republicans proclaim that the American people gave them a mandate to enact their right wing [...]
WTF?
“What’s with all the @#%! language?“, Politico.com: President Barack Obama called rap star Kanye West “a jackass.” Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to “Gimme a f—-ing break!” Economic adviser Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have their “holy s—-” moment over the economy. Those who pay attention to political rhetoric say [...]
A Pathetic Politico Hit Job
Politico, which seems determined to turn into more of a discredited rag with each passing day put out a story yesterday (written by Kenneth P. Vogel, in case you’re scoring this at home) about Mark Sanford. The first paragraph reads: In a written message to supporters Monday, Mark Sanford asserted that God’s plan for him [...]