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Tax cut extension announcement is huge win for Obama, Romney backfooted again

Monday’s announcement by President Obama that he wants Congress to extend tax cuts for middle class families earning under $250,000 for one year is a vivid demonstration of his campaign taking the initiative in the 2012 race.
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The June Jobs Report Will Have A Greater Impact On President Obama’s Standing Than The Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling

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New Poll: Both Parties Face Key Challenges In Wake of Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling

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Cronyism At Its Worst In Mongolia

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What The Obamacare Ruling Means For Campaign 2012

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Forget health care, it’s still about jobs, jobs, jobs for Obama and Romney

As President Obama sets off on his “Betting On America” bus tour through the key swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, both the Obama and Romney campaigns are anxiously awaiting the numbers from Friday’s monthly jobs report. As they wait,… Continue reading

What Obama can say to avoid being a one-term wonder

Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville released a report Monday, in which they argued that contrary to the consensus among “elites,” ;it would be a losing strategy for President Obama to base his reelection campaign “on his economic performance.”… Continue reading

The economy is not recovering, but instead slowly slipping away

President Obama’s only claim to reelection is that he and his team steadied America during its time of economic uncertainty and are, albeit slowly, growing the economy. Friday’s anemic jobs numbers show that in fact the economy is not recovering,… Continue reading

Campaign Is Moving ‘Inexorably’ Toward Romney

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Mitt Romney is expected to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination today, as winning the Texas primary will put the former governor over the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the nomination.
This is just the latest positive news for Romney,…

The 2012 Presidential Campaign Debate Should Be About The Future, Not Bain Capital

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Romney And Obama: What The Polls Really Tell Us

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Super PACs and Their Destructive and Divisive Domination of the 2012 Presidential Campaign

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Why The Election Remains A Tossup

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The Quinnipiac poll of swing states– Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania raises profound challenges for President Obama, underscoring why the election is effectively a tossup, notwithstanding his narrow lead in the Real Clear Politics averages.
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Both Obama, Romney making appalling use of bin Laden killing as political fodder

Appalled. That is the only word I can use to describe my reaction to the Obama and Romney campaign’s efforts to politicize the one year anniversary of the successful raid on Usama Bin Laden.
It was my sense that president… Continue reading