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To: calgal who wrote (51637)	5/21/2012 2:59:42 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 71588

Democrat Booker Features in GOP Fundraiser Monday, 21 May 2012 02:49 PM By Dan Weil Republicans are seeking to take advantage of Newark, N.J. Democratic Mayor Cory Booker’s criticism of a campaign ad from President Barack Obama. The ad attacked Republican White House nominee-to-be Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, the private firm he co-founded. The Republican National Committee (RNC) is now asking supporters to sign a petition saying they “stand with Cory,” The Hill reports The petition, included in an RNC e-mail to supporters, reads, “Yesterday New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate spokesman for the Obama campaign, called the president's attacks on the free market ‘ridiculous.’ That's right Mr. President, we aren't going to let you destroy free enterprise. Stand up for America. Stand up for job creators.” Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, Booker said, “I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. . . . If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses.” He said he felt "uncomfortable" with Obama's attack. Booker released a Web video later Sunday, pulling back from his criticism of the Obama campaign, but RNC Chairman Reince Priebus claimed in the e-mail that the campaign coerced Booker into changing his tune. “Do you know what Obama does with people who stand up for job creators?,” the e-mail reads. “He silences them. That’s right. By Sunday evening the Obama campaign had pressured Booker into taking back his support of the free market. This is how far President Obama has sunk — running an all-out assault on job creators. And in his own Democratic Party, anyone who dares defend them, must be silenced.” Read more on Newsmax.com: Democrat Booker Features in GOP Fundraiser Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

To: calgal who wrote (51637)	5/21/2012 3:05:33 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

You Mean It’s Not About the Economy? 12:31 PM, May 17, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts That’s what Clive Crook thinks, anyway. In a measured appraisal of the election, he writes: I don't really buy the view that the current state of the economy will be decisive … one way or the other. This was a very unusual recession and the tepid recovery is correspondingly strange. This time, the mechanical connection between growth and votes needs to be questioned, at least. The country knows that Obama inherited the recession. It also knows that his efforts to arrest it--for which, to be sure, he gets less credit than he deserves--had to contend with fierce GOP resistance. The economy is a negative for the incumbent, but I suspect less so than the raw numbers would lead you to think. Equally, if the pace of recovery improves, that will help Obama but again, I'm guessing, less than the historical correlations would suggest. One can buy this. Or not. And probably find some polling data to help make a case. And, then, Mr. Crook doesn’t allow for the possibility that the “pace of the recovery,” may not improve and that, in fact, the economy may be sliding back into recession. Something for which there is troubling evidence. But in discounting the importance of the economy in the coming election, Mr. Crook is not arguing that President Obama will, therefore, inevitably win. To the contrary: “[I]f the election were tomorrow,” he writes, “and I was forced to put money on one of the candidates, I'd say Romney.” Okay, you think, I’ll bite. If this economy isn’t enough to sour voters on the president, then what, pray tell, is?