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Michael Barone: Three Different Ways to Look at the 2012 Campaign
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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 [...]
Michael Barone: Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters
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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 [...]
Michael Barone: Box-checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon
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Box-checking Obama in a Liberal Cocoon
By Michael Barone
It’s unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.
The first time was in an article last April on Obama’s foreign policy in which he quoted [...]
Michael Barone: A Few Words in Defense of Negative Campaigning
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A Few Words in Defense of Negative Campaigning
By Michael Barone
Those who take a certain pleasure in denouncing the evils negative political advertising should have spent the last week in South Carolina. They could have plunked down in front of TV sets, especially during morning, early evening and late evening news programs, and by [...]
Michael Barone: Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks
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Obama, Romney Change Tacks in Week of Political Risks
By Michael Barone
It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race.
Barack Obama, his job approval languishing in the low 40s, delivered a much heralded speech in Osawatomie, Kan., framing the choice between the parties in class-warfare terms.
That’s a risky strategy. Democrats haven’t [...]
Michael Barone: Newt Keeps Pitching the America of His Imagination
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Newt Keeps Pitching the America of His Imagination
By Michael Barone
Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina, and may be threatening Mitt Romney’s lead in New Hampshire.
One is that he is [...]
Michael Barone: Entitlement – Not Tax Cuts – Widen the Wealth Gap
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Entitlement, Not Tax Cuts, Widen the Wealth Gap
By Michael Barone
What should be done about income inequality? That basic question underlies the arguments hashed out in the supercommittee and promises to be a central issue in the presidential campaign.
Supercommittee Democrats argue that income inequality has been increasing and can be at least partially reversed [...]
Michael Barone: Obama Has a Knack for Ticking off America’s Friends
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Obama Has a Knack for Ticking off America’s Friends
By Michael Barone
The election of Barack Obama, we were told, would bring new respect and friendship for America in the world.
No longer would we be led by a Texas cowboy ignorant of and indifferent to world opinion. Instead, we would have a visionary leader sympathetic [...]
Michael Barone: GOP Has Momentum, Needs Clear Direction
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GOP Has Momentum, Needs Clear Direction
By Michael Barone
This has been quite a week or 10 days for Republicans. As this is written, down in South Carolina Rick Perry has just announced he’s running for president, while here in Ames most of the votes have been cast but none has yet been counted in [...]
Michael Barone: Free Market, Not Government Policy, Drives Energy Boom
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Free Market, Not Government Policy, Drives Energy Boom
By Michael Barone
There’s an awful lot that’s stale in the debate on government energy policy.
Some stale arguments are nevertheless valid: It’s dangerous to depend heavily on Middle Eastern oil. Others have increasingly been seen as dubious: that global warming caused by human activity will result in [...]