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Obama has settled on a plan of deception about Bain

Yesterday, at a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden continued the story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. As I've said before, I think the Obama campaign has this story plotted out to have a beginning, middle and then crescendo in late October.

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Posted on 17 May 2012 | 8:53 am Author: Ed Rogers

Check out how Democrats are responding to recent polls

Powerful omens are foreshadowing something big happening in the political universe. There have been reports of water flowing uphill, I understand there will be a sudden, unpredicted eclipse happening soon, there are stories of animals who have begun to speak and walk upright, and Carter Eskew and senior Obama campaign strategist Stephanie Cutter are finding fault in a CBS/New York Times poll.

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Posted on 16 May 2012 | 5:10 pm Author: Ed Rogers

Obama's ego is his enemy

I was shocked during the GOP primaries when Newt Gingrich declared, "I'm going to be the nominee." He wasn't asking voters, he was telling them. That statement said a lot about Newt and why he was destined to lose.

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Posted on 16 May 2012 | 8:33 am Author: Ed Rogers

Growing pessimism on the economy signals trouble for Obama

Carter makes a valid point about some of the economic metrics and the outcome of the election. Carter pushed the threshold for unemployment at 8.4 percent as what would signal Obama’s demise. There is no indication that economic growth is going to produce the jobs needed to achieve the 7.9 percent that Carter says would herald an Obama reelection. Obama’s only chance of reaching that number is if workers continue to drop out of the workforce, therefore reducing the unemployment rate. Does that count?

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Posted on 15 May 2012 | 3:07 pm Author: Ed Rogers

Romney's political problems with his Bain history will be managed, not solved

The Obama campaign has opened an effective attack on Mitt Romney via Bain Capital. I assume this is part of a plan in which it has a story to tell about Bain over the next few months and this ad is only the first part of the first chapter on Romney and Bain.

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Posted on 15 May 2012 | 8:17 am Author: Ed Rogers

Ed Rogers
Opinion Blogger

Ed Rogers is a co-host of The Insiders Blog, offering commentary from a conservative perspective on Election 2012. He is also chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with now-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 1991. Rogers has been involved with numerous Republican political campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In the first Bush White House, he reported to chief of staff John Sununu. In the Reagan White House, he worked in the office of political affairs. Read more about Rogers.

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