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The Weakest Presidential Field in History?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2012 Comment (3)This week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney responded cleverly to the characterization that he's a weak front-runner: "If I'm a weak front-runner, what does that make Newt Gingrich? Because I'm well ahead of him."
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Ignore the 2012 Polls, Obama-Romney Will Be Close
Tweet Share on Facebook March 12, 2012 Comment (10)That didn't long.
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Mitt Romney’s 'Southern Problem' is National
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2012 Comment (2)Over in the U.S News Debate Club, you'll find an interesting symposium on whether the fact that former Gov. Mitt Romney has, thus far, performed poorly in Southern states constitutes a full-blown Southern problem. I had some inchoate thoughts of my own on this topic on the night of Super Tuesday. Let me add a couple more cents.
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Mitt Romney Is Winning, But He’s Not 'Winning'
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2012 Comment (11)After he'd absorbed the reality of Super Tuesday, in early February 2008, former Gov. Mitt Romney concluded he had no path to the GOP presidential nomination. In the CPAC speech where he announced he was dropping out of the race, Romney cited the need for Republican unity in a time of war. The truth was, this "conservatives' conservative" (as he was introduced at the '08 CPAC) could not shake former Gov. Mike Huckabee on his right flank—especially in the all-important Southern states.
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Mitt Romney's Struggles in the South a Sign of Trouble to Come
Tweet Share on Facebook March 6, 2012 Comment (7)All eyes seem to be on Ohio on Super Tuesday, but, as results come in, the real story seems to be in the South.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Flawed Wrecking Ball Economics
Tweet Share on Facebook March 6, 2012 Comment (9)On his new album Wrecking Ball, my New Jerseyite brother Bruce Springsteen is out with a snarling attack on latter-day "robber barons," "fat cats," and "vultures." Read obviously: investment bankers, hedge-fund operators, and other various and sundry Wall Street types.
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The Down Side of Recent Job Growth
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2012 Comment (9)It's been my contention around here that news of U.S. jobs growth, while better than the alternative, shouldn't cause us to jump for joy.
