Mitt Romney’s recent announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate makes this election even more about government spending, programs and taxes. Ryan is the primary author of the Republican-led House’s 2013 budget proposal. Consider these five proposals to evaluate Romney’s wisdom in selecting him.
The findings provide relevant insights on both the long-term political picture in America and the upcoming 2012 election.
The MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP), under the direction of co-principal investigators University of Chicago political scientist Cathy Cohen, and Joseph Kahne, professor of education at Mills College, has unveiled the findings of the largest nationally representative study to date of new media and politics among young people.
In November, Americans will have a chance to speak their minds.
And there’s one thing everyone should agree on:
America just isn’t working right now.
It’s not just Americans who aren’t working. It’s America itself, a country whose economy once worked for almost everyone, not just the rich.
In the old America, if you worked hard, you had a good chance of moving up.
In the old America, the fruits of people’s labors accrued to the whole country, not just the top.
In the old America, there was a strong middle class, and their immense collective purchasing power drove the economy for decades.
No longer.
With Newt Gingrich suspending his campaign today, Mitt Romney will finally be considered the presumptive Republican nominee. Only one person stands between him and the White House: President Barack Obama.
The two will wage electoral war from now until November, but how do their social profiles compare?
Sure, we’re always telling you it’s important to get out and vote on Election Day. But who actually bothers to show up? We break down the voter turnout data from the last Presidential election in 2008 and look at who actually votes in America—and who doesn’t. The results may surprise you.
The juxtaposition between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama couldn’t have been starker.
Romney delivered a solid, if perfunctory, victory speech. Later in the night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon.
One one hand, this was not remarkable. Even Richard Nixon appeared on “Laugh In.” And Romney was on the ballot in five states — of course he was going to deliver a political speech.
But nothing happens in politics by accident. Obama didn’t have to go on Fallon Tuesday night. And so, perhaps the dichotomy can serve as a signal — a sort of microcosm — of the coming general election.
President Obama’s Federal income tax rate is 20.5 percent, which is actually higher than Mitt Romney’s 15.4 percent despite making around $20 million less than the Republican frontrunner. Obama and his team have released his 2011 Federal income and gift and tax returns today. (You can find them here.) Obama and the First Lady are paying that rate on an adjusted gross income of $798,674, which is $20.1 million less than what reportedly Romney made in 2011. Of course, Romney paid around $3.2 million on that handsome sum, and the Obamas are paying $162,074.
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at supporting small businesses by making it easier for them to access capital. A key feature of the bill enables crowdfunding, the process by which small companies raise growth capital from a large number of individual investors.
You have a friend on Facebook who posts non-stop about all things politics. This friend is either a die-hard progressive, a staunch Republican or a total schizophrenic mixed bag who only posts outrageous political commentary to piss off other users.
There has been a lot of fighting about the possibility of raising taxes on the highest-earning Americans.
There has also been frustration about how much President Obama’s healthcare plan will eventually cost Americans, especially high-income Americans.
