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Fatigue Is Showing in Campaign Gaffes
Tweet Share on Facebook November 15, 2011 Comment (4)The wear-and-tear of the presidential campaign is starting to take its toll.
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Maryland Governor Says Super Committee 'Can't Give Up'
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2011 CommentMaryland Gov. Martin O'Malley offered advice Monday to the members of Congress' so-called Super Committee who are charged with crafting a deficit reduction plan. With their Thanksgiving deadline looming, O'Malley says "they can't give up."
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Keep Hope Alive: GOP Candidates Refuse to Give Up
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2011 Comment (7)Whether it's because of admirable perseverance or sheer stubbornness, the current batch of Republican presidential candidates never say die. Not even a feeding frenzy of epic proportions can drive them out of the race, as we've seen in the past week with Rick Perry and Herman Cain. What might have been natural exit points for politicians in the past--developments that were unsettling, embarrassing, or worse--have had little or no effect.
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Foreign Policy Debate a Battle of Rhetoric Vs. Reality
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2011 Comment (8)Violent revolutions in the Arab world. The European debt crisis. The opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden. All had yet to appear on the radar screen during the 2008 presidential primary, but all have required consequential policy decisions from President Obama, the elected commander-in-chief. Then there was Afghanistan, which the campaigning Senator Obama called a "war of necessity," with which Obama put pressure on himself to act and then had to answer politically for both a surge and his tentative exit strategy.
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Hope Is Dead: 2012 Election Doldrums
Tweet Share on Facebook November 11, 2011 Comment (2)There's a growing body of evidence that the country is in a dark and pessimistic mood, and that the 2012 campaign will be extremely volatile, subject to many twists and turns. The latest example comes from the esteemed pollster Peter Hart, who says unsettled Americans are looking for leaders who are "on their side, and currently they are finding very few people, companies and institutions that qualify."
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Perry Campaign Goes Into Damage Control
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 CommentTexas Gov. Rick Perry's presidential campaign may be in jeopardy after Wednesday night's debate, when he could not remember all three of the federal agencies he would eliminate if elected president. But his campaign is trying to make the best of it. It's a two-pronged approach—making light of the mistake, and using the media criticism to rally his troops.
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Grover Norquist Gives Romney a Thumb's Up on Fiscal Outlook
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (6)The next Republican presidential nominee need not be a conservative purist with a completely consistent record on issues important to the right, says influential anti-tax activist Grover Norquist.
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Perry's Gaffe Is One For The Highlight Reels
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (2)It was a nightmare moment for Texas Gov. Rick Perry that may have irreparably damaged his presidential candidacy. But similar incidents have happened before, and some candidates recovered and some didn't. What's clear is that Perry's brain freeze at last night's GOP debate will put him in the highlight reel of the all-time worst gaffes in the history of political debates.
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Questions Herman Cain Needs to Answer
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2011 Comment (5)What do we really know about Herman Cain?
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William Daley Becomes the Latest White House Fall Guy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 8, 2011 CommentWhenever a president gets into political trouble, it's often the White House chief of staff who takes the hits, and that appears to be happening to William Daley now.
