A Ray of Hope
Why today was a good day for Mitt Romney.
Every day until the election, Slate will offer up one reason to be optimistic for your candidate.
41 Days to go:
Today’s Good News for Romney: Wisconsin and Michigan may be leaning slightly blue, but here comes the big money. The conservative super PAC Restore our Future is dumping cash into the two states, spending $2.2 million in the coming week alone. At the same time, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Job Security are flooding the airwaves with anti-Obama messages across the country. Obama has a lead in a number of battleground states, but the Romney air war is just beginning.
See Mitt Romney’s good news from previous days.
See today’s good news for Barack Obama.
Mark Joseph Stern is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. You can follow him on Twitter.



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