0 washington post today that president obama did not win the election because he won the facebook wars. he won the facebook wars because he was winning the election. whatever you need to tell yourself, big guy. but regardless whether or not it was the fault of the romney folks, people s relative disinterest in him compared to his democratic opponent ended up being an important dynamic. it ended up being an important part of understanding how that campaign unfolded overall. well, that controversial but true story from buzzfeed about the relative online appeal of each candidate, that was last summer, june of 2012. mitt romney is terrible for traffic. now buzzfeed has given us the sequel. now we must all admit that there is another thing that is terrible for traffic, a thing that i will not say outloud for fear that you will turn off this television show if i do. it is the thing going on in washington right now that is a crisis, a self-inflicted preplanned crisis that the white house an
of this wilderness. i think you really have to consider people who stuck with this issue in the period when everyone else said nothing will happen and newtown came along and a lot of americans said we can t do nothing anymore. we re seeing so much attention on this issue, really specifically in the illinois 2 special election. that s going to be the first federal election after newtown, also the first federal election after the presidential election and the democratic primary is really the whole game in that race because it s such a democratic district. the bloomberg pac has been very, very heavy-handed in terms of their involvement in that race. just blanketing the 2nd district in illinois, that chicago district, with guns, making the a rating from the nra a scarlet letter for the two democrats who are viable contenders in that race who have that rating. is that something that we re only going to see in something so atypical like, that a very democratic district in chicago in a spec
barrett in milwaukee, there are a lot of people working in the wilderness who said even though we re here we re going to continue marching because someday we re going to gitd out of this wilderness. i think you really have to krt people who skuk with this issue in the period when everyone else said nothing will happen and newtown came along and a lot of americans said we can t do nothing anymore. we re seeing so much attention on this issue, really specifically in the illinois 2 special election. that s going to be the first federal election after newtown, also the first federal election after the presidential election and the democratic primary is really the whole game in that race because it s such a democratic district. the bloomberg pac has been very, very heavy-handed in terms of their involvement in that race. just blanketing the 2nd district in illinois, that chicago district, with guns, making the a rating from the nra a scarlet letter for the two democrats who are viable con
wilderness who said even though we re here we re going to continue marching because someday we re going to get out of this wilderness. i think you really have to consider people who stuck with this issue in the period when everyone else said nothing will happen and newtown came along and a lot of americans said we can t do nothing anymore. we re seeing so much attention on this issue, really specifically in the illinois 2 special election. that s going to be the first federal election after newtown, also the first federal election after the presidential election and the democratic primary is really the whole game in that race because it s such a democratic district. the bloomberg pac has been very, very heavy-handed in terms of their involvement in that race. just blanketing the 2nd district in illinois, that chicago district, with guns, making the a rating from the nra a scarlet letter for the two democrats who are viable contenders in that race who have that rating. is that somethi
0 she had gone to the meet your congresswoman event that day in tucson to meet her congresswoman, gabby giffords, specifically because she wanted to thank gabby giffords for her vote in favor of president obama s stimulus plan. abc news interviewed patricia maisch very shortly after the shooting. very shortly after the shooting. and here s how she explained that day, what she did. i was not able to reach the gun, gu he was pulling a magazine out of his pants pocket with his left hand, and i was able to grab the magazine because somebody said when he pulled that out, they said get the magazine. so i got the magazine and was able to secure that. the magazine that she s talking about in this particular shooting is this type, the big long type there that you can see sticking out of the butt of the handgun. a standard magazine for a gun like this would not hang out from the bottom of the gun like that. but the one the shooter was using in the tucson massacre had 33 bullets in it. and