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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — He had just been through the roughest patch of President Obama’s re-election struggle and yet senior adviser David Axelrod seemed, if not quite serene, then at least amiably stoic.
Posted on Jun 17, 2012
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By Joe Conason — When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer—a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived.
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For those who believe money already has too much power in American politics, 2012 will be a miserable year.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — As the election season heats up, an increasing number of states are working to limit the number of people who are allowed to vote.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Erik Kabik/Retna
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I spent Friday night in Las Vegas with an estimated 115,000 young people at the country’s biggest dance party. They were there to have fun. I was there to annoy them with questions. Surprisingly, every single baby-faced millennial I talked to was registered to vote and planned to cast his or her ballot in the next election.
Posted on Jun 9, 2012
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AP/Evan Vucci
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By Bill Boyarsky — Mitt Romney fakes to the center, although his ultimate policy goal is on the right, dismantling the safety net, wiping out the health care law and assuring the wealthy of continued low taxes. Or is it? What does he really believe?
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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Mark's Postcards from Beloit
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Scott Walker is looking to do what no other U.S. governor has ever done: keep his office after a recall election. Walker is just the third governor to face a recall ballot in U.S. history.
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
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ToonariPost
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Jittery investors now have even more to worry about after a disappointing May jobs report slammed Wall Street on Friday, wiping out the entire gains for the stock market this year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 275 points, or 2.2 percent. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 were also down, dropping 2.8 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively.
Posted on Jun 1, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Donald Trump has said he would be “open” to accepting a Cabinet post if Mitt Romney becomes president. Don’t laugh.
Posted on May 31, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Cory Booker’s emotional televised plea to “stop attacking private equity” may have been the single greatest service he could perform for the Romney campaign.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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Veterans prefer Mitt Romney over Barack Obama for president in the 2012 election by 58 to 34 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Memorial Day. The survey also showed that non-veterans support Obama over Romney by four percentage points, 48 to 44 percent.
Posted on May 28, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Progressives have yearned for President Obama to follow Harry Truman’s strategy from the 1948 campaign by giving his Republican opponents hell. Now that Obama is doing just that, his critics say he’s not looking presidential.
Posted on May 27, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fellow Republicans.
Posted on May 25, 2012
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Gage Skidmore
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Stephen Colbert has one. So does Sarah Palin. And now, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump says he wants his own super PAC too.
Posted on May 24, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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By Robert Scheer — President Obama is to be applauded for questioning Mitt Romney’s legacy, although his motives seem to be as opportunistic as those of Romney’s opponents in the Republican primaries who took the same tack.
Posted on May 23, 2012
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By Joe Conason — For Mitt Romney, the president’s greatest vulnerability seems to be that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton—and he is seeking to exploit that perception in his public speeches attacking the incumbent.
Posted on May 23, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In this election, we’re not having an argument that pits capitalism against socialism. We are trying to decide what kind of capitalism we want.
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Actor with a capital “A” James Lipton has a master class for the presidential contender: “Since politics and performance have become pretty much fused, and since you’ve been criticized by some for not coming across as authentic to your public, maybe we can sort of work on that today.”
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him.
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans say they’re eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from “distractions” and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they’re not careful, they might get their wish.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — We have been, like nations on the periphery of empire, colonized.
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice.
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By Joe Conason — Two incidents tested Mitt Romney this week—and both times, his ambition overwhelmed his judgment.
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Gage Skidmore
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He may have lost to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in both caucuses, but Ron Paul won a majority of the delegates in each state.
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By Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on May 3, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election?
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Gage Skidmore
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On Wednesday, the former House speaker formally ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, despite previously vowing to stay in the race until the GOP convention in August.
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By William Pfaff — A novel aspect of the Republican campaign for the party’s presidential nomination has been the importance placed by some candidates, their admirers and some voters on the Catholic religion and certain claims to formal academic certification or endorsement.
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans are waging the most concerted campaign to prevent or discourage citizens from exercising their legitimate voting rights since the Jim Crow days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What happened in Connecticut brings home the flaw in seeing everything that has happened in the states since the midterm vote as embodying a steady shift rightward.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a Utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve.
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Steve Brodner of The Washington Spectator imagines what it would be like for politicians and their wealthy donors to consummate their relationships. Like a car crash, it’s hard to look away.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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AP/Douglas C. Pizac
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By Bill Boyarsky — The wealthy financiers of Americans Elect are trying to get a so-called centrist on the ballot in all 50 states. That label doesn’t apply to Anderson, who is vying for their nomination anyway and tells me “amazing things can happen.”
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s quite possible that on Election Day, voters’ most urgent concerns—economic or not—will be driven by overseas events that neither President Obama nor his Republican opponent can predict or control.
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