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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for October 2012
Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 9
Early voting numbers in Ohio
I will admit it, I am a complete election geek. I want as much data as I can get my hands on before the elections. So, in that spirit, here are the numbers - county by county - from the state of Ohio on absentee ballots, the number of requests ...
Obama attacks Romney again on Big Bird
President Obama is expanding his attacks on Mitt Romney over funding for public broadcasting, releasing an ad today that further mocks Romney for saying that he would cut the budget for PBS as part of efforts to reduce federal spending. "One man has the guts to speak his name," says ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 8
Democrats try to keep control of Senate
With four weeks until Election Day, the race for the Congress continues to be the same, with Republicans favored to hold on to the House, while Democrats seem to poised to keep the Senate, though there could still be all kinds of different outcomes. The poll numbers in a number ...
Obama goes back to college
When President Obama arrives in Columbus, Ohio today for a rally at Ohio State University, it will be a familiar backdrop for his campaign this year, as the President has held over 30 events this year at college campuses. In recent weeks in Ohio, Mr. Obama has hit Bowling Green ...
Text of Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech
With 29 days until Election Day, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama on foreign policy matters today, giving a speech at the Virginia Military Institute that raised questions about how the Obama Administration has handled foreign policy, especially the attacks last month in Libya that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ...
Campaigns duel on foreign policy issues
As Republican nominee Mitt Romney lays out more foreign policy ideas in a speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute, the Obama campaign was in attack mode almost 24 hours before that address, giving Romney the back of the hand as President Obama flew to California for two days of ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, October 7
Swing state polling snapshot
There are all sorts of clues to look at it in the race for the White House with just over four weeks until Election Day, but let's take a snapshot of the Obama-Romney race in the ten main swing states. There have been some interesting poll numbers in recent days ...
Blog Entries for Friday, October 5
Looking at post-debate polling
Just like the aftermath of the national political conventions for both parties, we should be careful about drawing any big conclusions from polling done after the Presidential debates, but an initial batch of polling in some key swing states raises some interesting questions and gives some hope to supporters of ...
Jobless rate drops to 7.8%
With less than five weeks until the November elections, President Obama's campaign for re-election got a boost today with the latest jobless figures from the Labor Department, as the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in almost four years. In the month of September, the jobless rate dropped ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, October 4
Obama sharpens Romney attacks
After a lackluster debate on Wednesday night in Denver, a new President Obama emerged on the campaign trail on Thursday, slamming Republican Mitt Romney for basically lying about his policy stances in order to improve his chances in the November elections. "I know it couldn’t have been Mitt Romney," the ...
The "non-verbal" part of the Obama-Romney debate
In the days before this debate, we talked a lot about the non-verbal cues associated with a Presidential debate, which tell a much larger story for those watching the debate on television. Republicans believe that not only did Mitt Romney "win" the first debate overall, but he also "won" the ...
Romney pushes Obama in first debate
After months of political positioning and spin from both parties, the moment of truth finally arrived at the University of Denver Wednesday night, as the first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney featured an aggressive challenger and a somewhat less energetic incumbent. While both sides declared victory afterwards, Romney ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, October 3
Inside the Denver Debate media center
From the University of Denver - There are literally hundreds of reporters from around the nation - and around the world - here in Denver for the first debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney; most of us are working out of a gymnasium on the campus of ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 2
Let the Presidential debates begin
From Denver, Colorado - Every four years as the Presidential debates arrive, we go through the same ritual, looking back at past debates for a political "greatest hits" montage of great moments in debate history. And there isn't much to choose from. Richard Nixon won with voters on radio but ...
GOP demands answers on Libya security
With plans for a Congressional hearing next week on the deaths of four Americans in Libya on September 11, two U.S. House Republicans told the Obama Administration today that "repeated requests for increased security" to protect U.S. diplomats in Libya were rejected by the State Department. In a letter sent ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 1
Gaming out the Obama-Romney debate
After months of lobbing verbal grenades at each other, Mitt Romney and President Obama are now on the verge of facing off in person, a somewhat different dynamic that can produce memorable moments or gaffes - depending on what the candidate says, how it is said, and what happens when ...
VA wasted $762,000 on training conferences
A new internal report from the Veterans Affairs Department shows the VA spent at least $6.1 million for a pair of training conferences with about $762,000 labeled as "unauthorized, unnecessary, and/or wasteful expenses." The 150 page report, issued as a top human resources official resigned at the VA amid questions ...
Court opens door on new health law challenge
As the U.S. Supreme Court began a new term, the Justices seemed to open the door to the possibility of another challenge to the Obama health law, asking the Obama Administration to weigh in on a request to reconsider a challenge by Liberty University in Virginia. That news came as ...
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