President Romney? The schemes pushed by Republicans to up-end the electoral college would have changed the outcome of the 2012 election. According to the Huffington Post, which tallied the votes, we would now be looking at President Mitt Romney if the Republicans were allowed to rig the system the way some of them are trying to do now. And that’s despite the fact that President Obama handily won the popular vote. Republicans are always talking about states’ rights. But their new schemes to rig the electoral college takes rights away from the states and hands them over to Congressional districts, which they’ve been able to gerrymander in their favor.
As the Senate takes up Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons bill, the gun lobby may soon get major competition in the person of Gabrielle Giffords. The former congresswoman — who was shot in the head and nearly killed — and her husband are vowing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to enact sensible gun safety controls.
Gallup finds that President Obama is as polarizing as George W. Bush. The difference is that President Obama has been subjected to a campaign of hyberbole, name-calling and outright lies, and that resonates with a certain segment of the population.
Despite pleas from many progressives to dump or severely reform the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has his reasons for the compromise he reached with Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Hardball staff