Day: June 22, 2012

In recent months Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has lamented the toll the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries has taken on the U.S. economy. Romney is so “concerned” about outsourcing of American jobs that he has repeatedly promised he would work to keep American jobs in America by…

In this week’s Battleground Wisconsin podcast, the panel discusses the absurdly trumped up charges of fraud by Robin Vos and conservative fake-media groups in the Racine Senate election, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde’s demand that the media stop covering the “sob stories” of the economically distressed, a school district…

Republican U.S. Senate candidate (and carpetbagger) Eric Hovde has had a bad week. First he said he’s “sick and tired of reading sad stories about people struggling in the recession,” then he bizarrely tried to portray himself as a victim of vicious liberal attacks from the likes of Arianna Huffington…

this pretty much answers the question… The newspaper is in a difficult position. Circulation keeps plunging. Influence is all but gone. They barely cover the news themselves anymore. But they can win prizes for blockbusters. And that’s what drives them. I love blockbusters. The series the paper ran on the…

From my email inbox comes news of the campaign kickoff event for Tanya Lohr, the Democrat who’s running against extremist Republican State Sen. Glenn Grothman.

Yesterday I wondered when Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin would start running TV ads, and lo and behold her campaign announced their first TV ad later yesterday morning. Titled “Paper,” the ad highlights Baldwin’s record of working across party lines and leading a bi-partisan fight to crack down on…