Sun, Sep. 23 Electoral Vote Predictor
Polls Aren't Moving, Both Sides Worried The bounce President Obama got from the Democratic convention shows no sign of fading and both sides are worried. One reason the polls are not moving is that...
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Puncturing Myths about the White Working Class
A new survey and report from the Public Religion and Research Institute—entitled “Beyond God and Guns”—is a valuable corrective to so many stereotypes of the white working class. Particularly...
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Ryan Became Romney Instead of Romney Becoming Ryan Conservatives who cheered Mitt Romney's selection of Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, as his running mate in the hope this...
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The Ohio Problem
(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, September 26, 2012, in Westerville, Ohio. I wrote...
View ArticleThe Comeback Mitt
Even for the flintiest of liberals, it was hard to watch the sad spectacle of Mitt Romney yesterday, after touching down for a rally in Dayton, Ohio, and not feel a little sad for the guy. Here was a...
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How the "Obama Recovery" Makes Scandals Irrelevant
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) President Barack Obama waves to the crowd at his election night party celebrating his victory over challenger Mitt Romney. Do you remember Mitt...
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The Fire in Mitt's Belly
Flickr/Gage SkidmoreOn an episode of The Office from a few years ago, the desperately insecure character of Andy Bernard (played by Ed Helms) hits upon a strategy to ingratiate himself with people,...
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New Documentary Threatens to Make You Like Mitt Romney
A scene from the Netflix documentary "Mitt."During the 2012 campaign, I, like every liberal writer whose job it is to comment on politics every day, wrote many unkind things about Mitt Romney. Much of...
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Might We Have Mitt Romney to Kick Around Some More?
I've got a secret... (Flickr/davelawrence8)I often find it hard to get inside the heads of politicians, since the idea of running for office—particularly all that fundraising, glad-handing, and...
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Mitt Romney Explains the Politician's Art
Flickr/Austen HuffordBack when he was running for president, I used to joke that Mitt Romney was a political version of the T-1000 from Terminator 2—if he got close enough, he could morph himself into...
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