Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Auto sales continue at strong pace - CNNMoney - The encouraging April figures come on the heels of the best quarter for auto sales in the United States since the first three months of 2008, before gas prices spiked and the financial crisis hit its peak.
Michael Tomasky: How the GOP Became a Party of Whiners Over Osama - The Daily Beast - Republicans love to act like tough guys. Yet it’s the Democrat in the White House who got bin Laden—and the GOP that’s throwing a temper tantrum about a modest Obama ad.
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. - The Washington Post - By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein - It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted. We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party. The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Demographics Favor Obama Over Romney in November Election - The Daily Beast - Millennials and minorities, who boosted Obama in 2008, are growing, while white working-class voters, Romney’s bread and butter, are declining. But those loyalties could shift in the coming years, analysts tell Eleanor Clift.
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