W. James Antle III
While the latest NPR/Resurgent Republic poll shows Barack Obama with a narrow lead over Mitt Romney, it contains bad news for the president on health care reform. By a margin of almost two-to-one, voters say the health care reform law…
Which will exact the highest political cost: Mitt Romney’s Bain record and tax returns or Barack Obama’s “you didn’t do that on your own” speech? That’s one of the biggest questions of the presidential campaign to date. So far there…
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s slogan was “Yes, we can!” But if you thought that was an inspiring call for individual empowerment, think again. His new message is, “Oh no, you didn’t.” On Friday, the president laid bare…
The latest Purple Poll, a survey of key swing states conducted for a bipartisan political consulting firm, shows a close, stable presidential race with a fairly small pool of undecided voters. It also suggests, not surprisingly, that the voters who…
1. Based on the last week, we can see that Barack Obama is doubling down on the Bain attacks against Mitt Romney despite their earlier failure. Why? Even if Team Obama can’t exactly replicate Ted Kennedy’s success with this strategy,…
Earlier this week, I wrote about Barack Obama’s desire to return to the top tax rates of Bill Clinton’s presidency. Today his administration has distanced itself from one of Clinton’s key domestic policy successes by allowing states to opt out…
Clark Stooksbury says Robert Stacy McCain and I are being naive for praising Mitt Romney’s performance at the NAACP confab. Stooksbury argues that Romney’s intended audience was the Republican base, to whom he did pander, rather than the predominantly liberal…
For a while all we had to go on were a pair of dueling, contradictory internal polls. But now we have two independent polls that show Ted Cruz opening up a lead over David Dewhurst in the Texas Senate runoff….
Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we’re not in Kansas anymore. That is, if Kansas is defined as the 1990s Internet boom. But Barack Obama has constructed an odd time machine to take us back: returning to the Seinfeld…
It’s not easy for a Republican presidential candidate to address a traditionally liberal organization that represents a more than 90 percent Democratic community. Some might argue Republicans shouldn’t bother. But I liked the way Mitt Romney handled himself when speaking…
