On Wednesday, May 2, in Washington, Newt Gingrich will bury a campaign that has been dead so long it’s begun to smell. It’s tempting to view the narrative arc of Gingrich’s past 90 days as a tragedy: the wily antihero who rose …
2012 Election
Candidates Change, But Campaigns Remain The Same
The Obama campaign’s first major general election campaign video–released today–makes the case that despite an inherited recession and foreign policy crisis, the President has made the country safer and stronger.
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Oops. Wrong guy. Wrong election. But it’s the same message. Here …
Choice Election? You’re Doing It Wrong
“Elections are about choices,” writes Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades in a new campaign memo that claims to outline “the stark contrast facing voters in this election.” But the text that follows makes a lengthy case against the President and his tenure, while barely mentioning the Republican candidate at all. In other words, it …
Turning to the General Election, Romney Escalates His Tit-For-Tat Campaign
With the Republican primaries effectively over, the real war has begun. And while the next six months will be marked by talk of tactical shifts, all reports suggest that Mitt Romney‘s campaign has settled on an initial strategy. …
Karl Rove: Obama Is Winning
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, …
The Ned Flanders of Politics: Romney Isn’t Cool, and the GOP Shouldn’t Worry About It
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 …
Newt Gingrich to Suspend Presidential Campaign
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.
In Primary Victory Speech, Mitt Romney Echoes Barack Obama’s 2008 Message
Barack Obama, circa 2008, may have just clinched the Republican nomination for President in 2012. Mitt Romney doesn’t look like Barack Obama. They don’t come from the same background. And they don’t share a governing …
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Romney’s Rules of the Road
Final part of our series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie and Tim Pawlenty.
We’ve spent a lot of pixels analyzing some of Mitt Romney’s vice presidential options. There’s a …
Where There’s Smoke There’s Louis Freeh
The story of former FBI director Louis Freeh is an odd one. Freeh was openly hostile to Bill Clinton, the President who appointed him, and later trashed Clinton in a book for allegedly selling out an FBI terrorism investigation …
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Tim Pawlenty Makes More Sense Than You Might Think
Part 5 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie.
The candidate: Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota
The bio: Pawlenty’s life story formed the narrative …
The Obama Campaign Unleashes ‘Real People’ in Ohio
It must be general election time. “Real people,” that mythical breed of talking-point-driven, down-home American, have been unleashed in Ohio. They will be trotted out like exotic animals throughout Ohio this week, as the Obama …
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Why the Clamor for Christie May Go Unheeded
Part 4 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman and Mitch Daniels.
The candidate: Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor
The bio: A native Garden Stater, Christie grew up middle-class and …