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Obama and the Burden of Incumbency
Friday's jobs numbers and Bill Clinton's comment about Romney's "sterling" work in private equity don't cause me to revise my opinion that Obama is losing
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Friday's jobs numbers and Bill Clinton's comment about Romney's "sterling" work in private equity don't cause me to revise my opinion that Obama is losing
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The Hill reports that the Obama campaign is struggling to come up with a good campaign theme. How about "The Audacity of Despair"?
As always Bill Galston and John Cassidy are well worth reading. In interesting new commentaries on the election, both think Obama has the edge, while…
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For as long as I can remember (which is a long time), the alpha and omega of UK election analysis has been the Swingometer. This is a BBC graphic…
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The continuing argument about plutocrats who want to be taxed more heavily is puzzling to me. It seems to cause confusion where there really…
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A new memo from Third Way is worth reading. The authors look at a group of voters they call "swing independents": self-declared independents who have…
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A great column by Ron Brownstein underlines a crucial point about America's current political dysfunction. It's not that the country is closely…
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Stanley Fish says it's all right to criticize Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a slut but let it pass when Ed Schultz calls Laura Ingraham a slut.
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Kathleen Parker says that Rush Limbaugh has "united decent people of all stripes and persuasions with his vile remarks about a Georgetown law…
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The supposedly foundational choices that the Republican party is pitching to voters are a fraud, I argue in a column for Bloomberg.
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The articles on the state of the Republican party by John Heilemann and Jonathan Chait in the current New York magazine are both really good, I think…
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Question is, why can't they? Take a few pointers from Rick Santorum, I advise, or if that's too hard, maybe Bruce Springsteen.
I believe I've mentioned--I hope I've mentioned--how much I liked Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.…
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I wouldn't go so far as to say Romney looked relaxed and confident in last night's GOP debate--he never looks relaxed and confident--but it was a…
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The State of the Union was far too long, but what made me wince was the emphasis on outsourcing as the greatest threat to American prosperity.
As usual, Bill Galston has some good advice for the president. Including this: The plight of hard-working, hard-pressed Americans--those struggling…
Last night's Republican debate will most likely be remembered for Gingrich's assault on CNN's moderator, who kicked off by asking Gingrich to comment…
Some thoughts on the charge that Obama wants to turn the US into an entitlement society.Mitt Romney likes to contrast the U.S. economic system with…
Lawrence Lindsey makes the case for Anybody But Romney by pointing out that "safe" candidates--"low-beta" candidates, he calls them--have a poor…
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I was glad to see Jason DeParle's piece in the NYT about America's disappointing record on economic mobility. One thing I learned: some…
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Ron Fournier of National Journal says something that hadn't occurred to me about Iowa and what comes next.If Romney wins New Hampshire, he would be…
You might be interested in this column I wrote for Bloomberg View about inequality. I argue that the US preoccupation with this subject misses two…
The president will have a more relaxed Christmas, I imagine, than the one he was expecting a month ago. His poll ratings have improved a lot in the…
Among writers I read and admire, my Atlantic colleague Jeff Goldberg achieved a rare distinction lately: in the past fortnight he has written two of…
The quarrel over Politifact's "Lie of the Year" is missing the point. The fact-checker gave its annual accolade to the Democrats' claim that Paul…
Interesting data in the latest Allstate-National Journal poll, both on the country's political mood and on the focus of this latest installment in…
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Obama and his team should ease back on the transformational rhetoric and defend his proposals as commonsense responses.
Obama's speech in Kansas was the most important economic address of his presidency, says a delighted Robert Reich. Maybe so, if this was the moment…
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On taxes and income, the U.S. is on par with European countries. Have American progressives chosen the wrong policies to push?
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How would Newt handle the presidency? His lack of discipline and need for grandeur suggest he'd be a disaster in the White House.
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