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The response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address has been delivered by Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top-ranking Republican woman in the House of Representatives.
McMorris Rodgers, 44, is the member for the 5th district in Washington state. [Read more…]
This is the text and audio of Senator Marco Rubio’s response on behalf of the Republican Party to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.
I still find it remarkable that Republicans running Mitt Romney’s campaign seemed to genuinely believe that he was winning.
This November article from The New Republic looks at what happened. Read: The Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He’d Win.
Gwen Ifill of the PBS NewsHour commented on the same bizarre feature of the presidential election in this video piece reviewing 2012:
Here in Australia it’s possible to find people who genuinely believe that the Gillard government is going to be re-elected. Many blogs supportive of the ALP promote the argument that Tony Abbott is unelectable. Equally, there are Coalition supporters who cannot contemplate the possibility. As in the US, one side is going to be very wrong later this year.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been embarrassed by a video of him making disparaging comments about American voters.
Mother Jones magazine has published details of Romney’s remarks to a private function of wealthy donors last May.
Romney said: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.”
