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Despite Romney’s Gaffes, The Presidential Race Is Tightening

Don’t count him out yet. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The race for the presidency is getting closer and closer by the day. While last week it looked like it could be a runaway victory for President Obama, new…

A selfish Millennial’s guide to the 2012 election

Yes, I am a Millennial. Unfortunately I’m a part of the “self-esteem” era, where people my age tend to be very selfish. Not only that, but I’ve been raised with a generation of people who’ve often never been taught the…

What the polls aren’t telling us about the 2012 election

There has probably been more discussion of polls, sample, design, questioning technique, and of course, results of opinion polls, in this election than ever before. ; As someone who has made his living doing polls for the last 35 years,…

The ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ at 50 — how would Jethro vote in 2012?

Fifty years ago today CBS introduced a new TV series that sharply divided American cultural opinion.Critics and intellectuals hated it, and it became for them a symbol of how far television had fallen since the so-called “golden age” of live,…

Why did Obama use the N-word to describe his grandfather?

“My image of Onyango, faint as it was, had always been of an autocratic man—a cruel man, perhaps. But I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule… What Granny had told…

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…

Obama’s convention speech no game changer

One thing became clear Thursday night in Charlotte and that is that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton riveted the hall Wednesday night with a spirited defense of President Obama, support for bipartisanship and a very clear notion…

Romney takes a giant step in the right direction

Accepting his party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Tampa Mitt Romney delivered a solid speech. It succeeded in beginning the process of humanizing the former Massachusetts governor. ;It demonstrated his comittment to women and his view of government. It…

Obama and Romney Need to Get Real On Jobs Policy

It’s a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department’s July jobs figures showed that employers added 163,000 new workers last month. That exceeds what…

What Romney-Ryan and the GOP are missing

Make no mistake, Mitt Romney’s appointment of Paul Ryan as his running mate has galvanized the Republican base. But while a recent Gallup poll found a mere 39% of Democrats are now more enthusiastic about voting than in previous elections…