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Debates don't move polls. Debate winners do.
Wed,3 Oct 2012 10:11 PM PDT
Mitt Romney won the first debate; virtual every snap-poll and snap-pundit agrees on this point. As the 90-minute debate wore on, the Republican challenger's odds of unseating President Obama rose about 5 percentage points to 31 percent in the Signal's election model, driven by gamblers who dumped the president's stock during and immediately after the [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama camp: 'Testy' Romney lacked specifics
Wed,3 Oct 2012 09:12 PM PDT
DENVER - Amid the widespread judgment by the news media that Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama in their first debate, top aides to the incumbent argued that the challenger came off as unlikable and failed to offer the policy specifics Americans want. "The governor had a tough debate, he was testy. He wanted to [...] Full Story | Top |
In the debate spin room, Team Romney takes a victory lap
Wed,3 Oct 2012 09:12 PM PDT
DENVER—Even before Mitt Romney concluded his final statement at Wednesday's debate, his senior staff and top surrogates began streaming into the spin room, all with big smiles on their faces. Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser who has worked for the Republican nominee longer than almost anyone on his staff, could barely get his talking [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney goes on offense against subdued Obama in first debate
Wed,3 Oct 2012 08:02 PM PDT
Click image to see more photos from the debate. (David Goldman/Eric Gay/AP) President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney squared off in their first face-to-face presidential debate Wednesday, battling for more than an hour over the future of the economy, the federal budget, tax cuts, education, health care and even the future of Big [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama on the deficit
Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:26 PM PDT
The president is correct when he says that he inherited the biggest deficit in our history, as he recently told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. But he's looking to stretch this premise to its limit, claiming that his policies, from the stimulus to the rebooted war in Afghanistan, only account for a small portion of [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney on taxes
Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:17 PM PDT
Here are the key planks of Romney's tax plan: - Bush-era income tax cuts and capital gains tax cuts become permanent. - All income tax rates are cut by an additional 20 percent. - The Alternative Minimum Tax and the estate tax are repealed. Unless Romney gives a lot more specifics right now, the problem [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney: "I love Big Bird"
Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:00 PM PDT
The candidates were asked what they would do to cut waste out of the federal budget and each took a decidedly different approach. But the most memorable response goes to Romney, who took a direct shot at the beloved "Sesame Street" character, Big Bird. "I'm sorry, Jim, I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS," [...] Full Story | Top |
Candidates get confrontational on Social Security, Medicare
Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:51 PM PDT
The first presidential debate took a more confrontational tone as questions shifted from general comments on the economy to the future of Social Security and Medicare. "Social Security is structurally sound," President Barack Obama said. On entitlements, Obama also took a veiled shot at Mitt Romney's criticism of the 47 percent of Americans the GOP [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama and Romney accuse each other of misleading claims on economic plans
Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:34 PM PDT
Click image to see more photos from the debate. (Eric Gay/AP) The first presidential debate opened with three questions on the economy. And while each candidate presented details of their respective visions, they spent even more time assailing the details of their opponents' plans. [Related: Obama on jobs] In each of their follow-ups, both candidates [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama, Romney trade jokes on president's 20th wedding anniversary
Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:17 PM PDT
Click image to see more photos from the debate. (Jason Reed/Reuters) During the first question of the night, President Barack Obama paused before answering to note that it is his 20th wedding anniversary with Michelle Obama. "I promise we won't be doing this in front of 40 million people next year," Obama said. When it [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney on immigration
Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:17 PM PDT
Immigration: Romney When Romney says Obama didn't even try and tackle immigration in his first three years, he's deliberately leaving out that the president lobbied for the DREAM act—which would qualify undocumented youth for a conditional path to citizenship—while the Democrats controlled the House and was met with opposition once the Republicans took over. Romney [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama on immigration
Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:16 PM PDT
Immigration: Obama Obama suggests that Romney endorses or approves of Arizona's controversial SB1070 law—requiring police to determine detainees' immigration status, some argue through racial profiling. But Romney has actually talked about Arizona's e-verify law, which more modestly requires employers to check a job candidate's immigration status on an online database. Read more: • Mitt Romney [...] Full Story | Top |
Is that Steve Jobs on the back of a Chinese pickup truck?
Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:04 PM PDT
A strange photograph that appears to show the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs standing in the back of a pickup truck, striking a pose in his signature black turtleneck sweater, is making the rounds online in China. The picture was reportedly taken on September 26 in the city of Xi'an. However, it's still unclear what [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney on energy
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:13 PM PDT
Romney claims the president has "doubled": gas prices. This statement is technically true, but should be qualified by the fact that prices were extraordinarily low when Obama took office. Romney is attempting to hype up the Keystone XL, the pipeline project to transport oil from Canada to plants in the Gulf Coast. His point is [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama on energy
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:11 PM PDT
The president likes to say he's "doubled" the generation of renewable energy and, in the long term, fuel efficiency of cars and trucks. These boasts sound great, but unfortunately for him, they're exaggerated. Since Obama took office, only a certain division of renewable energy—wind and solar power—has doubled; overall, the increase in capacity is under [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney on health care
Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT
When it comes to talking about "the role of government," Romney loves nothing more than to talk about the menacing governmental takeover that is Obamacare—but hyperbolic criticisms of the law are off the mark. According to Factcheck.org: "Both Obama and Romney expanded the private insurance market by mandating that individuals purchase health care coverage." Romney [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama on Medicare
Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:10 PM PDT
Obama, who has claimed that the Romney/Ryan plan actually costs seniors extra money, mistakenly refers to the obsolete Ryan budget from 2011, not the plan currently backed by the Republican ticket. The actual plan shares the Democrats' goals of capping Medicare spending. Read more: • Ryan's Medicare Plan Falls Flat with Seniors Full Story | Top |
Romney on Medicare
Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:09 PM PDT
Listen for the "Medicare raid" meme, which says that Obama is about to rob Medicare to the tune of $700 billion in order to pay for the controversial Affordable Care Act (ACA). In fact, the oft-cited $700 billion figure represents the savings the ACA yields over 10 years by reducing Medicare spending, and it's chiefly [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama on jobs
Wed,3 Oct 2012 02:51 PM PDT
The president, for his part, will likely take credit for creating an impressive "4.5 million jobs." He's playing a bit fast and loose to get that number, however: that figure is not the net increase in jobs since the beginning of his presidency. To declare the 4.5 million figure, Obama is only counting private-sector job [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney on jobs
Wed,3 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Romney's plan to "create 12 million jobs" in only four years sounds impressive, but that level of job creation has already been predicted, regardless of his plan: Moody's Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisors forecast that no matter who wins this election, broader economic factors ensure that amount of growth by 2016. Romney is dressing up an apolitical [...] Full Story | Top |
Schwarzenegger's advice for debate: 'Be as honest as possible'
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a movie star and a political star. As governor of California, he has been in two debates. On "Piers Morgan" tonight, the ex-"Governator" has some advice for the candidates for president as they face off in their first debate: "Be as honest as possible." No surprise that honesty is on the A-lister's [...] Full Story | Top |
Jailers accused of sending inmates on unsupervised beer runs
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT
Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are accused of letting some inmates leave the jail to go on shopping trips for beer and chips. Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua are being investigated after one of the Territorial Correctional Facility's inmates escaped. According to court documents, one inmate said he was allowed to [...] Full Story | Top |
Debate prep advice from a pro: Yup, practice those zingers
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:07 PM PDT
When it comes to presidential debates, a 20-year Democratic veteran of politics has some good advice: Punches are good, counterpunches are better, questions are mostly predictable—and the key to success is to practice, practice, practice. Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff to both Al Gore and Joe Biden, penned the memo in June [...] Full Story | Top |
Denver braces for 'debate' traffic
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT
Denver residents are bracing for gridlock conditions—or what qualifies as gridlock conditions in Colorado—on Wednesday night as the city hosts the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at the University of Denver. A six-mile stretch of Interstate 25 will be closed in both directions between 5 and 10 p.m., the city [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado movie theater shooting suspect claims his rights were violated
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:29 PM PDT
Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes' constitutional rights were violated when his jail mug shot was recently released to the media, his defense team claims. In documents released on Wednesday, the court-appointed lawyers argue the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department violated the judge's order to limit pretrial publicity by providing an updated photo of Holmes [...] Full Story | Top |
Handless magician performs card tricks (VIDEO)
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT
Mahdi Gilbert does not have hands, but he has a seemingly magical ability to perform amazing card tricks that the average person can barely follow, let alone decipher. In this video, Gilbert performs some tricks before a small group at 2010's Magic-Con. The website for Magic-Con describes Gilbert as "a rare gentleman and scoundrel who [...] Full Story | Top |
The Red Carpet Restaurant Swap
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:58 AM PDT
This is a different type of innovation from what we typically cover on TCBB, but this definitely fits the concepts of innovation and boldness we look for in our stories. Eleven Madison Park in New York and Alinea in Chicago, two vaunted three star Michelin restaurants, are doing the unheard — combining staffs and cohabiting [...] Full Story | Top |
How to watch the presidential debate with Yahoo News
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:35 AM PDT
If you aren't in Denver to see the debate live alongside Yahoo News reporters Holly Bailey and Olivier Knox, we've got the next best thing: start-to-finish streaming coverage of the debate, complemented by live-stream commentary before and after from ABC News and Yahoo; coverage of the night's top buzzy moments; a live poll gauging your [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado ranchers struggle to survive drought
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:27 AM PDT
LOMA, Colo.—A group of black-coffee-drinking cowboys wearing ten-gallon hats gathered last week at the Western Slope Cattlemen's Livestock Auction house. Waiting inside a crowded diner for the sale to begin, they watched a light rain wash dust off the pickup trucks outside. The unusual sight raised cautious hopes that a crushing drought, which spread across [...] Full Story | Top |
Road Trip: Did they build it? The small-business owners of Colorado's Colfax Avenue
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:09 AM PDT
DENVER—Originating in the hills west of here where Buffalo Bill was buried, Colfax Avenue runs downtown through Denver, near the federal courthouse where Timothy McVeigh was tried, and then heads east through Aurora, finally riding past flatland and into Kansas. With the first presidential debate of this election year happening in this city on Wednesday [...] Full Story | Top |
Seinfeld fires off letter to the Times ripping critic
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Jerry Seinfeld really has a lot of free time on his hands. On Tuesday, the New York Times published a column by Neil Genzlinger critical of screenwriters he thinks overuse the word "really" in their scripts. "Civilization crumbles a little bit almost every time I turn on the television," Genzlinger wrote, "and a single word-and-punctuation-mark [...] Full Story | Top |
Apple recruiting its retail employees to fix Maps
Wed,3 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT
Though many of us like the app and use it regularly, it's hard to argue that there aren't problems with Apple's new Maps application bundled in its latest iOS 6 operating system. Between melted bridges, closed restaurants, and farms being … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Like something on Facebook, go directly to jail
Wed,3 Oct 2012 10:36 AM PDT
You might want to think twice the next time you Like those Facebook pictures of your cousin's new baby or retweet something funny from your friends — especially if you live in the Philippines. According to the new Cybercrime Prevention … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Hidden Powers of Your Mouse
Wed,3 Oct 2012 09:49 AM PDT
You use your mouse for just about everything: you drag, you drop, you highlight, you scroll. But even if you click your mouse a thousand times a day, I bet I've got a few secret mouse tricks you've never heard of. Click Tricks You surely know that double clicking highlights a word, and you might [...] Full Story | Top |
'KONY' filmmaker Jason Russell talks to Oprah about meltdown
Wed,3 Oct 2012 09:45 AM PDT
Filmmaker Jason Russell, who directed the "KONY 2012" documentary and then, a short time later, suffered a breakdown on the streets of San Diego, sat with Oprah Winfrey on "Oprah's Next Chapter" to discuss the film, the fallout and how he's doing now. When Russell's slickly produced 30-minute documentary on Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony [...] Full Story | Top |
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist pushes back against critics with ad buy
Wed,3 Oct 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a group led by conservative activist Grover Norquist that asks politicians to pledge never to raise taxes, is pushing back on criticism that a promise like that thwarts compromise by launching a public campaign worth nearly half a million dollars. The $495,000 effort includes ATR's first foray into the television [...] Full Story | Top |
For Obama and Romney, hard feelings are a backdrop to Wednesday's debate
Wed,3 Oct 2012 08:20 AM PDT
DENVER—When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney meet for their first debate on Wednesday, there will be handshakes and smiles—and maybe even a good-natured pat on the back or two. But they probably won't be genuine. The moment will likely mark a brief moment of civility between two fiercely competitive candidates in an election that [...] Full Story | Top |
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