Charles Blow: "Dark Road to the White House"
Shady money, voter suppression, shifting positions, murky details and widespread apathy.If there is a road map for a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan win in November, that’s it. Distasteful all.That is how Blow begins this New York Times column.On the web page along side the column, one reads some fascinating statistics, dervied from a Suffolk University Poll representing 90 million adults of voting age:
Unregistered, unlikely to vote, but if they were registered and voted, for whom they would vote
Obama 43
Romney 14
Registered, but likely to vote, for whom they would vote if voting
Obama 43
Romney 20
Favorable opinions towards the candidates:
Obama 55
Romney 25
Blow then goes through a lot of the inconsistencies and problems with the Republicans on their ticket and things
Paul Ryan has a family connection to Bain
In this Daily Telegegraph Piece
note not only the probable illegal action by Romney, but the fact that Paul Ryan's brother Tobin worked at Bain. From the piece, which is primarily exploring possible illegal acts by Mitt Romney while he was Governor, we learn that
note not only the probable illegal action by Romney, but the fact that Paul Ryan's brother Tobin worked at Bain. From the piece, which is primarily exploring possible illegal acts by Mitt Romney while he was Governor, we learn that
For three years from 1995, Tobin Ryan, who is now 47, was a senior manager at Bain & Company, the consulting firm where Mr Romney made his name. Mr Romney was at the time leading Bain Capital, the firm’s investment arm, inside the same Boston headquarters.Tobin Ryan left Bain to become a Vice President of the firm whose actions are the subject of the Telegraph article.And by the way, in the UK the Daily Telegraph is often called the Daily Torygraph - take that for what it is worth