Your 12-Dimensional-Chess Strategy Memo for the Debates
'If you throw a knife, he'll respond with a knife.' A hidden mind-game in the debate?
'If you throw a knife, he'll respond with a knife.' A hidden mind-game in the debate?
How President Obama and Mitt Romney are likely to attack each other in tonight's foreign-policy-focused face-off, and how it could affect the campaign
A wish-list for Bob Schieffer
Mitt Romney is surging because women are abandoning the president. Why is this bloc so fluid? And can Obama get them back?
Trying to better relate to voters, he's "gotten personal" in recent weeks -- and that means talking about death. A lot.
A focus group of the election's crucial demographic sees the candidates as "talking to each other" rather than to women voters.
The first debate left us with an image of Obama scowling. This one, with a very different image of Romney.
Obama and Romney both show us different things from the first time around.
A new study finds swing voters are persuaded by the president's commercials -- while his challenger's spots fail to move the needle.
Until Mitt Romney's strong showing in the first debate, his stumbles served to obscure a series of missteps by the president.
The president, too, could learn from this favorite show of Romney's.
Forget winning over the Gen X vote. Ryan's biggest fans are older voters who loved his respectful demeanor at the vice-presidential debate.
Make up your mind already!
Is it just that they're not paying attention? Some undecideds say that in fact they're looking very hard at the race.
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The debate probably didn't move many votes, but it had some interesting implications.
The vice president turns in a bizarre, hammy performance against Paul Ryan -- but maybe that was what the reeling Obama campaign needed.
Both men did fine; Biden did more than that.
Is the president too 'prissy' to make this simple argument?
A check list for the points made, and missed, tonight.
With both running mates a drag on their respective tickets, their best-case scenario in Thursday's debate may be to do no harm.
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.