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John Judis, from his excellent review of Suskind’s Confidence Men: What the President has done since the November election has, if anything, worsened the country’s and his own situation. He made the...
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When You’ve Got John Thune On Your Side, Not Even Newtmentum Can Stop You
Jonathan Bernstein notices that the endorsements for Romney have started coming in with more frequency and in larger numbers than has generally been the case thus far in the campaign. He thinks this...
View ArticleRocks at the Throne
In what one imagines is a preview of the campaign to come, Obama’s first 2012 ad has a dollop of soft-core populism: President Obama’s campaign will go on air with its first ad buy of the 2012 cycle...
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House GOP Wants A Mulligan On Pentagon Sequester Cuts
I am shocked. Shocked, and appalled, and shocked: Republican leaders in Congress have all but reneged on a key agreement they reached with the White House last summer rather than reconsider their...
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Is The Republican Primary George McGovern’s Fault?
Weekly Standard‘s Jay Cost is bemoaning the dissolution of the old, pre-McGovern system of Party organization, when both Parties, were run by a hierarchical network of wise men and power brokers. Ever...
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Characters And Records: Defining The President In 2012
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something: The presidency is our most intimate office… Barring a national disaster, issues are secondary–although an impression of...
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A Base Choice
Ron Brownstein combs through the first batch of real-deal 2012 polls and finds that the demographic make-up of those polled is almost entirely determinative of the winner. Obama’s more or less got the...
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It’s The Base, Stupid
Mark Kleiman thinks the recently announced decision by Gov. Romney to give the commencement address at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University is a mistake: [Romney] needs to convince moderate swing voters...
View ArticleObama Campaign Drops The “Swiss Bank Account” Bomb
Here it is, the first attack ad on Mitt Romney from the Obama campaign, made for a TV audience: The Obama campaign has bought $458,883 in airtime so far in Ohio, $88,455 in Iowa and $72,845 in...
View ArticleThis Is What Concern Trolling Looks Like
An ideology for the fortunate RT @PatrickRuffini: A life where you don’t need government is more appealing than one where you do. — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 4, 2012 People vote hopes and...
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