Suffolk U.: Obama leads Romney by double digits
President Barack Obama (47 percent) leads Republican Mitt Romney (37 percent) in a national general election match-up, with 7 percent saying they would vote for a third-party candidate and 7 percent undecided, according to a Suffolk University survey of likely general election voters of all parties.
Obama led all GOP candidates: Romney by 10 points, Rick Santorum by 14 points, Newt Gingrich by 19 points, and Ron Paul by 21 points. Read more
Poll: Santorum headed toward big win in Louisiana
Rick Santorum appears to be headed toward building on recent victories in the Deep South with another strong showing in the Louisiana Republican presidential primary.
Public Policy Polling has Santorum at 42 percent in Louisiana, with national frontrunner Mitt Romney at 28 percent, Newt Gingrich at 18 percent and Ron Paul in fourth at 8 percent. Read more
PPP: Romney headed for big win in Illinois
Mitt Romney has a commanding lead in the final polls in Illinois heading into Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary.
Public Policy Polling has Romney at 45 percent, Rick Santorum at 30 percent and Newt Gingrich a distant third at 12 percent. Looking inside the numbers, the strength for the former Massachusetts governor is among voters in suburban areas, where he is getting the support of 50 percent of expected GOP primary voters, and in urban areas, where he is pulling 46 percent support among primary voters. Read more
Chris Graham: McDonnell’s political obit
How would you like to be Bob McDonnell right about now?
It wasn’t that long ago when the pundits had you pegged as the GOP vice-presidential nominee, and that was before you formally endorsed Mitt Romney, right before the critical South Carolina primary.
The endorsement of a Southern Republican governor before a key Southern primary was sure to push Romney over the top toward his inevitable nomination. Read more
Poll: Primaries too close to call
Polling done by Public Policy Polling has today’s Republican Party presidential primaries in Mississippi and Alabama too close to call.
The PPP surveys have Newt Gingrich with a 33 percent-to-31 percent lead over Mitt Romney in Mississippi with Rick Santorum a close third at 27 percent. Romney has a slight lead in an even tighter three-way race in Alabama, at 31 percent to 30 percent for Gingrich and 29 percent for Santorum. Read more
Scott Klinger: Corporations pay less in taxes than Buffett and Romney
Corporations pay a lower effective tax rate than Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney, but you wouldn’t know it from all the complaints that our corporate tax rate puts our country at a competitive disadvantage. Last year, U.S. corporations paid just 12.1 percent of their earnings in federal corporate income taxes. Buffett’s tax rate is 17.4 percent; Romney’s reported 2010 tax rate was 13.9 percent.
The corporate tax system is riddled with loopholes and subsidies that do create competitive problems, but not the ones CEOs are talking about. Our broken tax system blesses U.S. multinational corporations with lots of loopholes that enable them to pay less in taxes than Main Street businesses. It allows large companies, even those in the same industry, to pay vastly different tax rates. It has starved our government of revenue, adding to the pressure for deep budget cutbacks rather than the investments needed to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, educate our children and support the innovation needed for economic success. Read more
Chris Saxman: Cold Fusion-Free Bourbon Edition
Posted by afp on March 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Unable to keep up with the times, I must submit to the reality that I was playing the wrong game. I assumed that the everyone had a mutual goal that there would be humans around that would aspire to be free.
I have broken the code. Read more
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