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Three Different Ways to Look at the 2012 Campaign
By Michael Barone
Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog [...]
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No Confidence will Kill Obama Reelection Chances
By John Ransom
While economists agonize about unemployment, jobs created, money supply, stimulus, and the budget deficit, they often ignore one number that will in all likelihood matter most to voters in November.
Consumer confidence numbers have been slipping since reaching an anemic high back in February of 2012 [...]
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Elizabeth Warren Dances With Lies
By Ann Coulter
Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, “Lies on Race Box,” is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.
Harvard took full advantage of Warren’s lie, bragging to [...]
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Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters
By Michael Barone
Last week, Barack Obama delivered speeches at universities in Chapel Hill, N.C., Iowa City, Iowa, and Boulder, Colo. The trip was, press secretary Jay Carney assured us, official government business, not political campaigning.
It’s part of a pattern. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller has counted [...]
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Voters Understand the Immigration Debate; Politicians Don’t
By Scott Rasmussen
As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with the Obama administration’s challenge of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the overall issue of immigration remains misunderstood by both political parties in Washington.
Many Washington Republicans confuse voter opposition to illegal immigration with opposition to all immigration. Their remarks [...]
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When Administrations Implode
By Victor Davis Hanson
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos takes hold, whether self-induced or as a result of an outside crisis.
Vietnam had effectively destroyed Lyndon Johnson by 1967. Watergate unraveled the Richard Nixon administration, as the disgraced president resigned in the [...]