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For-Profit Colleges Must Crack Down on Predatory Practices
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2012 Comment (7)Former Rep. Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, recently wrote a letter to U.S. News to rebut my previous posts about for-profit colleges.
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GOP Attacks on Obama's Bin Laden Success Are Hypocritical
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2012 Comment (13)Former Gov. Mitt Romney and his advisers and surrogates are going apoplectic over the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and the attention President Obama is getting for the success.
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Often Overlooked: For-Profit Colleges Ripping Off Taxpayers
Tweet Share on Facebook April 24, 2012 Comment (2)President Obama is focusing this week on making college more affordable, ensuring a strong college loan program, and improving access for future generations. His concern is private colleges, community colleges, and state schools.
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Rick Santorum's 2012 Exit Is Smart Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook April 10, 2012 CommentFormer Sen. Rick Santorum's exit before the Pennsylvania primary was smart politics. Even if he were able to win that battle against former Gov. Mitt Romney, he would have still lost the war. And if he lost his home state, his star would have been further tarnished by the rejection, two times over.
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Should Mitt Romney Talk More About His Mormon Faith?
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2012 Comment (33)On Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch accused the Obama campaign of planning an attack on former Gov. Mitt Romney for his Mormon religion. Hatch, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints, told GOP activists in Utah, "You watch, they're going to throw the Mormon Church at him like you can't believe." Hatch singled out David Axelrod and David Plouffe, saying, "There is nothing they won't do."
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Mitt Romney's Troubles Will Follow Him to the Convention
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2012 Comment (3)The train has left the station. The fat lady is about to sing. It is all over but the cheering. Any more trite phrases, as former Gov. Mitt Romney is about to wrap this nomination up?
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What the South's Scary Republican Electorate Says About the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2012 Comment (3)There has been a lot written about the make-up of the Republican primary electorate in 2012. By now, it has become clear how very conservative they are, how many of them are evangelicals, how social issues motivate many of them, and how truly angry they are at President Obama.
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2012's Super PAC Mania Is Just Getting Started
Tweet Share on Facebook March 12, 2012 Comment (1)The Center for Responsive Politics (which I helped form in the horse and buggy days of 1983) just came out with a report on super PACs. We have just started to see the implications of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
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Barack Obama Should Worry About the Enthusiasm Gap
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2012 Comment (3)There has been much written about the "enthusiasm gap" in the 2012 election. Democrats have been crowing that GOP turnout is down from 2008 in eight of the 13 states that have voted prior to Super Tuesday. According to the Center for the Study of the American Electorate and the Bipartisan Policy Center, GOP turnout has dropped from 13.2 percent of eligible voters to 11.5 percent.
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Rush Limbaugh and the GOP's Suicidal Culture War
Tweet Share on Facebook March 6, 2012 Comment (2)It seems strange that we are in 2012 and the Republicans believe it is in their best interests to rewage the culture wars of the 1960s.
