Conservative horcrux Karl Rove is out with his first official electoral college projection of 2012 and… it’s really bullish on Obama. Rove has South Carolina, which McCain won by 9 points in 2008, rated as a toss-up, and Texas–Texas–merely leaning Republican. The result, in Rove’s model, is 284 electoral votes within Obama’s grasp, …
When President Obama went on late-night TV this week to “slow jam” his stump speech on student loans with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots, he pulled off a rare feat. For a second, he made Stafford-loan interest rates cool. The …
“You can see it’s not selling very well. Why don’t you try to come up with something else?”
That candid quote of the day comes from Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor, responding to solicitor general Donald Verrilli’s argument before the High Court on Wednesday that a provision of a controversial Arizona law requiring police …
Are you sitting down? It looks as if Newt Gingrich may have wildly over-stated his own prospects and Mitt Romney might just pull this one out.
It can be a little hard to follow the teachings of Washington’s centrist cognoscenti. In arguing that a grand fiscal bargain is feasible even in this heated election year, the New York Times today talked to middle-way thinktankers and Gang-of Senators (your Warners, Grassleys and Wydens)–in other words, the types who always think the …
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Washington nonprofit that brings together conservative lawmakers and corporate representatives to craft state-level legislation, announced on Tuesday it is disbanding its Public …
The Obama-backing super PAC Priorities USA Action breaks out this picture from an old Bain Capital brochure to field test its general election munitions:
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Almost exactly four years ago, Barack Obama made one of the worse gaffes of his political career. He told highfalutin donors at a San Francisco fundraiser that “bitter” voters in rural Pennsylvania “cling to guns or religion or …
“I was disappointed in listening to the President as he’s saying, ‘Oh Republicans are waging a war on women,’” Romney said at a Wednesday campaign rally in Hartford, an event painstakingly choreographed to flaunt …
Mike Murphy writes in this week’s magazine that Romney should stop talking about his history and get to the business of talking about Obama’s:
With less biography but more catchy and forward-leaning proposals, Romney will have a much better chance to prevail over Obama, who has an even more fragile biography.
Standing before a bank of cameras at a hastily called press conference in Gettysburg, Pa., on Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum spoke about miracles. As he often does, he spoke about his faith in God and about his family, …
There’s someone who urgently needs to talk to you about your taxes this week, and it’s not your panicked procrastinating CPA. President Obama wants you to know what your tax rate is. He wants you to know what the tax rates are …
In the Monday, April 9, New York Times piece on American Crossroads’ plans to provide heavy air support for Mitt Romney while he resupplies for the general election, the super PAC’s president, Steven J. Law, makes an unusual statement:
Mr. Law said Crossroads research suggests that Mr. Obama’s campaign has started to gain traction
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