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Obama Shows That He Is No Clinton

President Obama’s speech last night was certainly not the game changer that many expected, and hoped, that it would be. Indeed, if there was one message to take away from President Obama’s convention speech it was not the one of…

Paul Ryan’s Polling Problem

The nomination of Paul Ryan puts an important issue—the country’s fiscal direction—on the table. It also indicates that Team Romney realizes this issue matters and must be addressed in the campaign. However, it is not entirely clear that Ryan’s selection…

A campaign truly about nothing

  Last Friday’s employment numbers — with 163,000 jobs created in July, and the jobless rate rising to 8.3% — were neither uplifting nor surprising. These came on the heels of last week’s Fed report that the economy grew only…

Obama and Romney Are Still Running Neck-And-Neck, Despite Success of Bain Capital Attacks

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Why the White House is Nervous

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Romney, Obama must address crisis of U.S. families

The decline of the American family is the hidden issue in our election. Sadly, neither presidential candidate is talking about our family structure or traditional values in any positive or constructive way. But we are now facing a crisis of…

Obama’s Blame Game Is Not Working

President Obama’s news conference Friday on jobs and the economy offered nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically. The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the ‘Do-Nothing’ Republican Congress. On the surface, the…

Obama’s Truman Strategy Will Not Work

President Obama’s news conference today on jobs and the economy offered nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically. The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the ‘Do-Nothing’ Republican Congress. On the surface, the…

What the 2012 presidential race needs to be about

Mitt Romney is expected to clinch the Republican nomination tonight and he will no longer be known as his party’s “presumptive” nominee. By tomorrow it will likely be official — the 2012 presidential race will be a contest between Barack…