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Why Negative Ads Backfire
Tweet Share on Facebook October 30, 2010 Comment (10)To listen to the barrage of political ads in the last week of the campaign, one would think that Satan is running for office--many offices, in fact, across the country.
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The World Series and America’s Mainstream
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (7)Boy, there is nothing more American than a World Series.
Kids toting mitts, hoping to catch a fly ball. Dads with their daughters. Hot dogs. Chilly weather. Star spangled bunting. The autumn classic.
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Obama Is Turning Women and Working Families Away from Dems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (32)Thursday’s New York Times/CBS News poll had a few gems buried in it: first, that previously undecided women are now turning to the GOP, for the first time since polls began tracking the breakdown between male and female voters in 1982. In the previous New York Times poll last month, women preferred Democrats by 7 points. As of yesterday, they prefer Republicans by 4 points--an 11-point swing that suggests that undecided women are moving to the right.
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Gulf Oil Spill: There's Something About Halliburton
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (4)What is it about Halliburton? Are there corporate rewards for behaving badly?
Not just badly. Badly with self-destructive, short-sighted enthusiasm.
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After the 2010 Elections End, Governing Must Begin
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (8)In five days it will all be over. Even if tight races in Alaska, Hawaii, and Nevada make those individual outcomes unknown as the sun rises on November 3, Election 2010 will be in the books.
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Obama Fundamentally Doubts America Is a Good Country
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (20)There are few people today who write as well as columnist Shelby Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and winner of the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for the book The Content of Our Character.
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Obama Shouldn’t Hate the Filibuster
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (4)President Obama hates the filibuster, as he explained in his Wednesday night appearance on the Daily Show. Of course, that was after Senator Obama defended the filibuster in 2005.
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Missouri’s Senate Race Reminds Us Politics Is Not Tabloid Theatre
Tweet Share on Facebook October 28, 2010 Comment (1)Active sports fans are familiar with the clever phrase “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Intimating, of course, that the fighting in professional hockey frequently garners more enthusiasm than the game itself.
In a madcap election cycle that has witnessed unforeseeable Tea Party Republican primary upsets (Utah and Connecticut), Democrats rushing to distance themselves from President Obama (West Virginia and Rhode Island--where the Democratic gubernatorial candidate declared two days ago that Obama could take his endorsement and “shove it”), something odd happened on the way to the ballot box: a traditional, competitive campaign broke out.
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Round 2 of 'Republicans: Funny or Sad?'
Tweet Share on Facebook October 28, 2010 Comment (11)Two weeks ago, we played America’s hottest new political game, “Funny or Sad,” on the Thomas Jefferson Street blog and the verdict was unanimous--everybody hated it. I had more comments on my Funny or Sad post than any of the other posts I have written and Republicans felt I was making fun of conservatives and their hypocrisies. Nothing could have been further from the truth. LOL. Typical of the comments was Hunter from Wisconsin, who wrote, “It’s sad, Brad. You’re such a joke.”
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Why the National Debt Doesn't Matter--Right Now
Tweet Share on Facebook October 28, 2010 Comment (8)Both American presidents governed during harsh economic times and suffered big losses in the midterm elections for Congress. One went on to be vilified as one of the worst to hold the office; the other is hailed as one of the best.
Both were Republicans. Both faced concerns about government debt. Herbert Hoover decided that deficits mattered. Ronald Reagan did not. You know the rest of the story.
