Another stumble for Team Romney: Romney campaign co-chairman John Sununu – the former governor of New Hampshire – suggests Colin Powell’s endorsement yesterday of President Obama was based on race, and not on the issues. He later backtracked. But this isn’t the first time the Romney camp has used race or ethnicity or even nationality to demean President Obama. Sununu himself was forced to apologize in July after he suggested the president wasn’t a real American back in July. How low can they go?
Republicans running for Senate have hurt themselves with bad luck and self-inflicted wounds, and that just may guarantee the Democrats retain control of the Senate.
The Obama campaign is spending its final days grinding it out — hoping grunt work and math wins re-election for the president. And the president is hoping to regain the edge among women voters.
As for the Romney campaign… they’re waiting until close to Election Day to unleash a barrage of ads across the battleground states.
President Obama has a lead in Nevada, and he’s tied with Mitt Romney in Colorado, according to our new NBC News – Wall Street Journal – Marist polls.
More good economic news – as third quarter GDP growth was better than expected. Business leaders want a compromise deficit reduction deal, even if it means higher taxes for them. The non-partisan economic analysts who said Mitt Romney’s tax plan doesn’t add up find themselves at the center of a political firestorm.
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