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    "  Bruce Springsteen loves Barack Obama. Bruce Springsteen does not love Chris Christie. Being overtly supportive of Barack Obama might get Chris Christie his holy grail: The approval of Springsteen, even a meeting with him. Believe me — he’d rather meet with Springsteen than with Obama, or anyone else."
    Bruce Springsteen loves Barack Obama. Bruce Springsteen does not love Chris Christie.’

    Why Exactly Is Chris Christie Subverting Mitt Romney? - Politics - The Atlantic

    — 6 months ago
    #politics  #Usa  #Mitt Romney  #Chris Christie 
    "The thing about not having much money is you have to take much more responsibility for your life. You can’t pay people to watch your kids or clean your house or fix your meals. You can’t necessarily afford a car or a washing machine or a home in a good school district. That’s what money buys you: goods and services that make your life easier."
    — 8 months ago with 6 notes
    #Usa  #Poverty  #power  #Inequality  #wealth  #income  #Mitt Romney  #privilege 
    (Source: YouGov Panelists from Winter 2011-2012 who were re-interviewed Jun 16-18, 2012)
        (via Do Presidential Gaffes Matter for People Paying Attention?)
    (Source: YouGov Panelists from Winter 2011-2012 who were re-interviewed Jun 16-18, 2012)

    (via Do Presidential Gaffes Matter for People Paying Attention?)

    — 8 months ago with 1 note
    #Usa  #government  #Mitt Romney  #Barack Obama  #Elections  #YouGov  #democracy 
    "There are 20 eBay sellers and 58 websites (within top 100 returns of searching “buy twitter followers” in Google) where people can buy (fake) followers
    Twitter username is used to purchase, no authentication is required
    The average price of buying 1000 followers is $18
    A Dealer can control as many as ~150,000 or more Twitter followers (contact@kashifrox)
    A Dealer can earn as much as $800/day for 7 weeks of selling followings if they can control 20,000 fake accounts (estimated on several random fake accounts reaching 2000 followings in 7 weeks and assume each following involved a minimum $20 purchase)
    In addition to selling followings from these fake accounts, there are numerous opportunities for expansion into other services: selling tweets/re-tweets to earn additional profits"
    — 9 months ago
    #twitter  #social media  #Mitt Romney 
    "…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact."
    — 10 months ago with 60 notes
    #Politics  #mitt romney  #GOP  #education  #USA  #democracy 
    I Like The Constitution So Much I Want To Change It

    touchoftea:

    liberalsarecool:

    “I’d like to have a provision in the Constitution that in addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birth place of the president being set by the Constitution, I’d like it also to say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he could become president of the United States.” — Mitt Romney, on Tuesday

    Typical conservative moving the goal posts, trying to make up the rules as they go along, with everything stacked in their favor.

    “… history shows that time in the money trade is more often than not a prelude to a disastrous presidency. The less experience in business, the better the president.”

    How about that the president has to spend at least three years living as a low income wage earner before s/he can become president of the US?

    I can’t. I can’t.

    (Source: realitychex.com, via ineedmymorningtea)

    — 11 months ago with 207 notes
    #mitt romney  #usa  #politics  #power  #privilege 
    "My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” Romney said. “That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point. … Or ever, by the way."

    Obama declares support for gay marriage - Yahoo! News

    Surely the real news is that Romney promises not to change his mind about something.

    — 1 year ago
    #barack obama  #rights  #freedoms  #marriage  #winning  #awesome  #mitt romney