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Hillary Clinton, 2016? New Book Chases Widespread Speculation
Tweet Share on Facebook November 8, 2012 CommentSince Election Day, questions have been flying over whether Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016, and now we will have a book that may provide some answers.
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Why We May Never Know How Much Money Karl Rove Made Running Crossroads
Tweet Share on Facebook November 8, 2012 CommentCORRECTION:
On Thursday, Nov. 8, Whispers published the blog entry below entitled "Why We May Never Know How Much Money Karl Rove Made Running Crossroads."
The blog post's premise is that there is a question as to whether Rove received compensation from the outside spending groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. Upon review, it is clear to U.S. News that there is no credible basis to believe that Karl Rove earned any compensation, either directly or indirectly, from these outside groups.
Rove has publicly stated several times that he receives no direct or indirect compensation from American Crossroads or Crossroads GPS. Moreover, as reported in the original blog entry, relevant federal filings reveal no financial connection (either directly or indirectly) between Rove and American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. Rove is not listed as an employee earning salary, nor is there anything in the forms to suggest that he received compensation from these entities as a consultant, through his work for Karl Rove & Company, or in any other manner.
The blog post also states that Rove raised more than $1 billion through outside spending groups. In fact, this was the total amount raised by all outside groups during the 2012 election cycle. Rove tells us that the amount he actually raised was less than one third of that amount.
Finally, the blog post misstated the facts regarding Rove's sale of his prior consulting company. Rove sold all of his company's assets, except for the name, in March 1999. There is no basis for suggesting that Rove retained any interest in the company or any successor firm after the sale nor is there any basis for suggesting that Rove's current consulting company, Karl Rove & Company, received compensation in any manner from the Crossroads groups.
U.S. News regrets the errors.
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What Mitt Romney's Victory Website Looked Like (SCREENSHOTS)
Tweet Share on Facebook November 8, 2012 CommentSometime Wednesday afternoon, the Internet found what appears to be Mitt Romney's victory website, visited it en masse, and then overloaded it until the site went down. By Thursday morning, the site was no longer there at all.
But a Google cache of the site and screenshots of the page by blogger Bhavik Lathia show what a Romney victory site—and his presidency—might have looked like.
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Preliminary Tallies: Without Youth Vote, Obama Would Have Lost Election
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2012 CommentYoung people between the ages of 18 and 29 made up a bigger share of the electorate on Tuesday than they did in past elections, according to preliminary tallies, with the percentage young voters standing at 19 percent. And President Obama overwhelmingly won that group compared to Mitt Romney.
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Tea Party Slams Mitt Romney as 'Weak Moderate Candidate' Hand-Picked by 'Mushy-Middle' GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2012 CommentThe Tea Party Patriots, one of the most prominent organizations within the fiscally conservative tea party movement, says Mitt Romney lost the election because he was a "weak moderate" candidate that was "hand-picked" by the establishment GOP.
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Obama Makes Last-Minute Plea to Reddit Users
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentFollowing an August visit that slowed the site to a crawl, President Barack Obama returned to the popular social news website Reddit to make a last-second plea to get out the vote Tuesday.
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Obama Campaign Sends E-mail To Supporters: 'Will Ferrell Will Eat Trash For You'
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentYes, it's the height of silly season.
The Obama campaign sent out a bizarre E-mail Tuesday afternoon bearing the subject line: "Will Ferrell Will Eat Trash For You."
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Past Simpsons Episode Looks A Lot Like Today's Clip Of Faulty E-Voting Machine
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentSometimes art imitates life imitating art.
Four years ago, around Election Day 2008, The Simpsons did an episode in which Homer's vote for Barack Obama was magically switched to John McCain every time he tried to press the president's name on an electronic voting machine. The episode was likely a riff off of reports that year that voters faced problems with the touch screens of voting machines.
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In Ohio, a Debate Over Problems Voters Could Face at the Polls
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentAs the polls open in the all important swing state of Ohio, some watchdog groups are worried voters will see tactics intended to suppress their vote, including registration problems, poor voting place organization and aggressive poll watchers.
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True The Vote Barred From Operating In Franklin County, Ohio
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2012 CommentThe Franklin County Board of Elections in Ohio confirms to Whispers that True the Vote, a controversial, Tea Party-affiliated organization supposedly dispatching thousands of vote monitors to the polls Tuesday, has been barred from operating in that county due to improper filings.
