Low, but not the lowest ever.
Election 2012
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A Convention of Bootstrap-Pullers
Which tells us absolutely nothing about their policies.
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What Romney’s Speech Didn’t Do
It probably won’t change anything.
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Romney Breaks Out of His Robotic Shell, Emerges as Generic Republican
The GOP nominee reintroduces himself as someone who is good enough to beat President Obama.
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Chasing Swingers, Not Specifics
The Republican convention sought to convince swing voters—all evidence to the contrary—that the party does not hate women, minorities, and the poor.
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Pennsylvania Has a New Voter ID Option—But Serious Burdens Remain
The new “card of last resort” means everyone in the state can get an ID—but that hardly solves all the problem’s with the state’s strict requirement.
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Did Hubris Kill Texas’s Photo ID Law?
A panel of judges rejects a discriminatory law—and Texas Republicans have only themselves to blame.
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Race and the Gathering of Our Political Tribes
What color are you? Look hard.Â
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The Hidden Candidate
Mitt Romney wants to be president, but he doesn’t want us to see him.
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Ryan’s Speech Lays on the Charm, Drops the Plan
The GOP trotted out their golden boy for the whole country to meet on Wednesday night, but the vice-presidential pick’s oft-trumpeted wonkiness was nowhere to be found.
