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Mitt Romney Can’t Afford to Lose Obama's Bain Game
Tweet Share on Facebook May 22, 2012 CommentCory Booker, the highly regarded mayor of Newark, N.J., did do Mitt Romney a favor with his remarks Sunday on Meet the Press. But it's not the favor Romney's campaign probably perceives.
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Mitt Romney's Key to Victory: Defining Himself Before Obama Can
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2012 Comment (36)David Brooks of The New York Times says President Obama "should be getting crushed right now" in presidential election polls. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein says the current read—that the election is about as close as it can get right now—is entirely to be expected.
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Dick Lugar-Richard Mourdock Race a Do-or-Die Moment for Tea Party
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2012 Comment (11)When Newt Gingrich's campaign finally died last Wednesday, it took with it the hopes of Tea Party and other conservative groups to lift one of their own into the White House.
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What Newt Gingrich Can Do for Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook May 3, 2012 Comment (3)Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich probably stayed in the race for the Republican presidential nomination a bit too long.
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John Boehner Right to Sound Alarms on Losing the House
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2012 Comment (23)House Speaker John Boehner did not mean to set off a panic, but he did mean to issue a strong and loud wake-up call earlier this week when he said on Fox News that Democrats had a "one-in-three chance" of winning back the lower chamber of Congress in November.
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Mitt Romney’s Narrow Path to the White House
Tweet Share on Facebook April 18, 2012 Comment (2)Now that the general election campaign has officially begun, we can count on two things—stories about how candidates are "tacking to the center" and a first wave of polls.
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Rick Santorum Deserves Our Respect
Tweet Share on Facebook April 11, 2012 Comment (3)It is fitting former Sen. Rick Santorum chose Gettysburg to suspend his campaign because, like General Robert E. Lee 150 years before him, he had reached that city by surviving longer than anyone expected.
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Will Rick Santorum Be a Team Player?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2012 Comment (5)Now that Newt Gingrich's campaign is downsizing faster than Main Street in these difficult economic times, and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has effectively pulled the plug on funding the super PAC that supports the former House speaker, it does appear Gingrich's campaign has reached the end of the line.
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Ohio Is Do or Die for Rick Santorum on Super Tuesday
Tweet Share on Facebook March 3, 2012 Comment (4)We won’t see a clean sweep on Super Tuesday. Candidates know they don’t have to win everywhere and that it’s not necessarily worth the time and money to try. But with more than 400 delegates at stake across 10 states on March 6, it is critical candidates win where they can.
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Mitt Romney Overplayed His Hand in Michigan
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (3)In the campaign world, it's almost a cardinal rule: Undersell your chances, then overdeliver at the ballot box. Former Gov. Mitt Romney never got the memo on this, and he might well pay a severe price for this misstep in next week's Michigan primary.
