Posts tagged “south carolina”

Bizarro Election Day #1

When I speak in private and people ask me for handicaps of the different races in the news on I always assign percentages. Recently I had been giving Romney an 85 percent shot of taking the nomination and a 60-70 percent shot at taking the general. Often times after giving these numbers I’m asked why [...]

Is this real life?

Mitt Romney told reporters today at a press stop in South Carolina that he pays “probably closer to the 15 percent rate” on taxes. This is way lower than what most middle-class families pay in taxes. Taking into account this cherry-on-top consideration, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post today decided to add up the equation that [...]