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The Obama campaign has placed Willard Romney in the old school "Trickbag".

Willard Romney's senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told Chuck Todd on MSNBC's Daily Rundown that he agrees - the fee is a penalty and not a tax, as the Supreme Court ruled last week.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last week provided surprisingly dramatic evidence of how much these commercials are wounding Romney.

In the country as a whole, 23 percent said they viewed Romney more positively because of his experience “managing a firm that specializes in buying, restructuring and selling companies,” while 28 percent said this made them view Romney more negatively. But in this year’s 12 battleground states, many of which have

gotten a heavy run of the anti-Bain ads, only 18 percent viewed Romney’s business experience positively; 33 percent viewed it negatively. Obama led Romney by three points nationally but by eight in the battlegrounds. E.J. Dionne

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

 

In Memorial of Rodney King   1965 - 2012

The past week's political events that help shape  American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

“The Federal Government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance.”  Thus, he said, the mandate provision (Section 5000A of the Act) “would be unconstitutional if read as a command.”   The four dissenters thought the mandate was invalid in any case, so they surely shared at least that sentiment.John Roberts

Charles Rangel, who was first elected to Congress in 1970, waged a campaign focused on his legislative seniority. And he stressed the backing of many elected officials, suggesting that New York’s political establishment was not ready to usher him from office.

At Sylvia’s, a sign described the congressman as “The Lion of Lenox Avenue.” Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a co-chairman of the state Democratic Party, predicted that Mr. Rangel would serve indefinitely in Congress, saying, “Charlie Rangel might be the Strom Thurmond of Harlem.”

“No one has been through the fire more so than our congressperson,” Mr. Wright said, “and we in the district have sent him back because we have faith in him, and that he has our interests in mind, and quite frankly he’s one of us.”

Mr. Rangel took the stage looking emotional, and sounded a note of damaged pride and fierce determination. He said of his critics, “If they didn’t think after 42 years that I was the best qualified, I promise them that in the next two years they’ll have no question about the fact that we elected the best.”

“What the courts basically said is ‘We don’t have evidence today to justify blocking it, so you guys in Arizona figure it out,’” said Alessandra Soler, Arizona’s executive director for the ACLU.

Charlie Rangelis out to show his doubters he has one last comeback in him at 82.

Weighted down by ethics troubles, incapacitated for months by his health and forced to run in a vastly redrawn district, the iconic New York Democrat first elected to the House in 1970 was thought just a few months ago to be pushing his luck with another run for reelection.Politico

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende