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Despite the outpouring of anger at Scott Walker, on an electoral level the governor’s opponents have struggled to channel the enthusiasm that garnered more than 1 million recall signatures into a successful campaign. As a result, the campaign to recall Walker is sputtering, and the governor has pulled ahead in the polls with a little over two weeks to go until the June 5 election.
Scott Walker’s recall fight is among the most hyped races of 2012, a national flashpoint that is partly a referendum on Walker’s stance on public unions, and partly a test of enthusiasm for November. But his campaign has zero interest in political pageantry. It doesn’t hold massive rallies. The location of its headquarters hasn’t even been made public. For the most controversial governor in the country, the numbers are all that matter.
Ron Paul on Monday announced he will scale back his already diminished presidential campaign, effectively ending his longshot bid for the Republican nomination. In an e-mail that took the tone of a valedictory, the libertarian icon said he would no longer compete in upcoming primaries, though his campaign would continue its work amassing delegates at [...]
With a month to go before Wisconsin’s gubernatorial recall vote, Democrats’ case against Scott Walker is less about collective bargaining policy itself than the notion that the governor masked his intentions to limit it as part of the sweeping budget bill he championed last spring. The argument, which Politifact endorsed, is that Walker obscured his plan [...]
Jason Horowitz’s story in the Washington Post on Mitt Romney’s teenage years is a first-rate piece of reportage. The portrait of a high school class in 1965 is laced with anecdotes about the posh prep school’s social dynamics and institutional pressures, and it offers a useful window into Romney’s formative years. Unfortunately, now is the moment in [...]
President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his support for gay marriage, becoming the first sitting U.S. President to endorse equal status for same-sex couples and responding to building pressure to clarify his position as his re-election campaign gets underway.
Keith Judd, a.k.a. Inmate #11593-051 at the federal correctional facility in Beaumont, Tex., is a modern Renaissance man: a Rastafarian-Christian, a former member of something called the “Federation of Super Heroes,” a musician and NRA member who has bowled a “sanctioned” perfect game. His favorite book is Stephen King’s The Stand. His favorite President is [...]
When Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan expressed support for gay marriage in recent days, their candor underlined the calculated approach their boss has taken on the topic. As a candidate, Barack Obama opposed gay marriage. As President, he has performed an awkward straddle. Obama is counting on gay supporters for their votes and [...]
When Democrats began the push to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last year, his controversial law curbing the collective-bargaining rights of most public employees headlined their list of grievances. But while June 5′s landmark recall election began as a fight over the fate of unions, it has since become a battle over unemployment, past promises and [...]
The battle of Wisconsin was never going to be cheap. Scott Walker, the Republican governor facing a landmark recall election next month, is perhaps the most polarizing politician in the country not named Obama. The June 5 election in a bitterly divided swing state is seen by both sides as a bellwether in the ongoing [...]
