Bill Galston has a piece in The New Republic listing the reasons why Barack Obama is going to have a tough time winning reelection in November. He’s right about most of them, but wrong about the one at the very top–he buys into …
2012 Election
Is Mitt Romney Really More Charitable Than Barack Obama?
When Joe Biden went to New Hampshire on Thursday to attack Mitt Romney’s tax proposals, the Romney campaign greeted Biden by attacking President Barack Obama’s charitable giving rate. On a campaign conference call with …
Ann Romney and Hilary Rosen Debate Motherhood: What American Women Really Think
It really is sad to see the challenge of modern motherhood reduced to a partisan battle over which political party cares more about women and the American family. Some of us might expect a little more from the campaigns of two …
The Story Behind Lawrence O’Donnell’s Apology to Mormons
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about Joseph Smith, and I am …
Dick Lugar and Barack Obama: The End of Bipartisan Bromance
It was Washington’s most charming bipartisan bromance. When Barack Obama ran for President in 2008, he was eager to embrace Indiana’s Republican Senator, Dick Lugar. Obama dropped Lugar’s name into his announcement speech, featured him in a TV ad, and cited him as a key foreign policy influence in a debate. Hugging Lugar, the …
Why Romney Shouldn’t Bother Fighting in the ‘Women Wars’
“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 …
Putting Romney’s History in the Past
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.
Evangelicals Will Vote for a Mormon Candidate, Says Richard Land
Don’t believe what the national media tells you, says Dr. Richard Land, a leader with the Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney doesn’t need to worry about his Mormon faith being a problem for evangelical voters at the voting booth.
How Newt Gingrich Can Cash in By Cashing Out
A Swampland competition to plot a profitable post-campaign future for the former Speaker.
Predicting the Latino Vote in 2012
The Latino vote will matter in the 2012 election. So say Republicans and Democrats, and even the cover of TIME magazine. But just how much it will matter is not clear at this point. Too many factors remain fluid. We don’t know …
Santorum’s Honorable Campaign
One evening in Iowa last October, as autumn trudged toward winter, I watched Rick Santorum work a huge crowd of 7 civilians in the back room of a tavern, in a very small town. It was his final stop of the day, well past 9 p.m., but he answered every last question those people had and even asked a few himself. When it was over, he and I …
Primary Closure: Santorum Suspends His Campaign of Miracles
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, …
Goldman Sachs: Best Way to Survive the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ is Sending Obama, Republicans Back to Washington
Market-observers are worrying about a new obstacle in the path of economic recovery: America’s impending “fiscal cliff.” Economists from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Alan Blinder have been warning of the $600 billion that …