“Obama won,“ “Appeared calmer and more authoritative,” “near-rout for Obama” CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. Sarah Boxer @Sarah_Boxer More from @CBSNews poll of uncommitted voters- Who would do better job helping middle class? 56% Obama, 43% Romney John Weaver @JWGOP This actually was better than Obama was even in 2008. His best debate performance as[Read More…]
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FACT CHECK: Romney’s Plans Wouldn’t Create 12 Million Jobs And Could Slow The Recovery
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. Mitt Romney claims that his jobs plan would create 12 million jobs, but as independent fact checkers have found, his math simply doesn’t add up. One today wrote that it was a “bait-and-switch,” explaining that the “’new math’ for Romney’s jobs plan doesn’t add up.” And independent projections[Read More…]
Massachusetts Officials Speak Out Against Romney’s Revisionist History
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. In response to Mitt Romney revisionist version of history, elected officials from Massachusetts released the following statements: “I was a Massachusetts Representative for all of Mitt Romney’s term as Governor. I’ve worked with four Governors in Massachusetts, including three Republicans and I never saw a more disengaged chief[Read More…]
Ohio Ministers Celebrate Supreme Court’s Upholding of Early Voting Rights
Cleveland, Ohio–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. Ohio members of People For the American Way Foundation’s African American Ministers Leadership Council praised a U.S. Supreme Court ruling today that ensures Ohio polls will remain open in the three days prior to November’s election. The state legislature eliminated early voting in the weekend before[Read More…]
Air Resources Board Goes to Bat in Defense of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012 – Today, during oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging California’s low carbon fuel standard, attorneys for the California Air Resources Board and a coalition of environmental groups asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco to reverse a December 2011[Read More…]
Disclosure Laws Needed to Ensure Transparency in Judicial Elections
Attack Ads from Anonymous Donors Threaten Impartial Judicial Rulings Read the full report here. Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. As this year’s election approaches, political attack ads are flooding the airwaves, fueled by a series of campaign finance reform setbacks that allow corporations and wealthy individuals to secretly contribute unlimited sums[Read More…]
Second-Generation Immigrants Outperform Mainstream Populations in the US, Canada, and Australia
TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. A new study published by the Social Science Research journal reveals that second-generation Chinese and South Asian immigrants in the US, Canada, and Australia are more successful than the respective mainstream populations (third- and higher-generation whites). Jeffrey G. Reitz and Naoko Hawkins from the University of[Read More…]
Because Conservation Doesn’t Have a Party
By Audubon President & CEO David Yarnold New York NY –(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. You have to get out of shouting range of the politicians in Washington to appreciate what’s really important to Americans. Americans like Barbra from Arizona: “‘Environment’ is not a swear word, but too often it is[Read More…]
AARP: Social Security COLA Critically Important to Beneficiaries
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond offered the following statement reacting to today’s announcement by the Social Security Administration of a 1.7% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2013: “The annual COLA is critically important to the financial security of the nearly 55 million Americans receiving[Read More…]
Romney’s $5 Trillion Tax Math Just Doesn’t Add Up
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. Will Mitt Romney continue to hide the truth about his tax plan in tonight’s debate? Over the last two weeks, Romney’s been denying the very existence of the $5 trillion in tax cuts skewed toward millionaires and billionaires that he’s been running on for months. That’s because[Read More…]
