The White House is breathing easier this morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent-the first time it’s been under 8 percent in 43 months. In political terms, headlines are everything-and most major media are leading with the drop in the unemployment rate. Look more closely, though, and the […]
Election 2012
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Mighty Morphin Mitt
Today’s Ringside Seat: Why is the right so pleased with Romney’s George W. Bush impersonation?
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Obama’s Other War
What ails the president? The intractability of the political and capitalist forces that make curing the nation’s greatest ills virtually impossible.
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The Sound of Crickets: Conservative Sites Silent about GOP Voter-Registration Fraud
ACORN’s minor offenses became the right-wing scandal of the century. Nathan Sproul’s voter-registration fraud on behalf of the GOP elicits absolute silence from the Breitbarts and Drudges.
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We’re All Values Voters
What voters care about most is that their candidate share the same values—economic and social—as them, something Obama forgot in the first presidential debate.
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Those Unemployment Numbers
In August, 114,000 jobs were added to the economy and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent, but that doesn’t mean Obama should start bragging.
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David Brooks, the World’s Most Gullible Man
What do you know, he found the “authentic” Mitt Romney.
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A Day Late, A Debate Short
Today’s Ringside Seat: Today, Obama decided to start debating Romney.
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B Is for Bad Moderator
The one thing that all pundits can agree on about the first presidential debate: Jim Lehrer was the night’s biggest loser.
