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Dick Morris explains — why I was wrong about the 2012 election

I’ve got egg on my face. I predicted a Romney landslide and, instead, we ended up with an Obama squeaker. The key reason for my bum prediction is that I mistakenly believed that the 2008 surge in black, Latino, and…

Sudden danger signs in polling as Election Day nears

As Election Day approaches, we must be very sensitive to last minute changes in the polls. Remember that President George W. Bush fell from a 4 point lead into a tie over the last weekend in 2000 and Clinton rose…

Why The Trade Issue Matters On Election Day

With Election Day only 15 days away, it’s clear that economic issues will drive both President Obama and Governor Romney’s closing arguments. Despite unemployment dropping below 8 percent in the most recent jobs report, poll after poll shows that likely…

Obama jokes he doesn’t perform flawlessly night after night

LOS ANGELES, California – At a star-studded concert in Hollywood, President Obama joked that unlike the rock stars who were on stage before him, he doesn’t always perform perfect each night. The president praised the stars for performing on stage…

What Americans know that Obama and Romney do not

Mitt Romney’s off the record remarks are potentially a very serious problem for him. By dividing the country into those who pay taxes and those who don’t pay taxes, the former Massachusetts governor has made both a substantive error and…

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…

Mitt Romney has Newt Gingrich to thank for a few things in 2012

Wednesday afternoon Newt Gingrich is expected to announce that he will suspend his presidential campaign. After yo-yoing from the bottom of the heap to the top of the pack and back down to the bottom again, his time to win…

Could seniors sink Obama in 2012?

Much attention has been focused recently on the alleged and so-called “Republican War on Women,” which has produced a gender gap that in some polls recently has exceeded 20 percent. But there is another war that is soon likely to…

An Obama vs. Romney race poised to offer Bush v. Gore-style drama

The 2012 election has all the makings of the epic Bush v. Gore battle of the 2000 presidential election. With less than 2,000 votes separating Gore and Bush when the polls closed on Election Night 2000, ; ; the final…

A Critical Juncture for Mitt Romney

Now that the GOP primary contest appears to be winding down once and for all, the Romney campaign will need to step up its game. And step it up quickly. Put simply, thanks to a protracted and bruising primary battle…