Is it going to take a miracle for the Republican nominee to win the electoral college?
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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The Bush Doctrine Lives
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tyler J. Clements The process of evaluating presidential candidates always involves a lot of speculation and guesswork, because we can’t know what conditions a president is going to confront a few years from now. On domestic policy, however, we can at least look at what the candidate […]
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The Bush Doctrine Lives
Almost all the GOP presidential candidates will embrace it in one way or another, even those not named Bush.
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Mitch McConnell Is Still Mitch McConnell
With the new Congress about to take office, I suspect we’re going to be seeing a lot of discussion about how Republicans, and Mitch McConnell in particular, are charting a new, productive path, now that they “need to show they can govern.” Like this article in today’s Washington Post: Mitch McConnell has an unusual admonition […]
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Torn Between Two Presidents
A fair accounting seems to put Clinton far behind Obama when it comes to accomplishing liberal goals.
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Torn Between Two Presidents
In the 2008 primary campaign, there was a moment when Democrats began to debate Bill Clinton’s legacy. At one point, Barack Obama seemed to minimize the significance of the Clinton presidency when he said, “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill […]
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Welcome to the New Blog
Today marks the debut of my new blog here at the Prospect, which involves a new look, some changes in functionality, and a bit of a rethinking of the content that I post here at the American Prospect’s website. While up until now you could find my writing in a couple of different places on […]
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Are Jews Doomed to Lose the War on Jewish Christmas?
Reports from the battlefied are not encouraging.
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Why Conservatives Learned Nothing From Sam Brownback’s Failure
What are they going to do—abandon their entire economic philosophy?
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Obama Compared to Prior Presidents On Job Creation, In Graphs
He’s looking pretty good, and getting better.