Obama dominated tonight’s foreign-policy debate, but with the country focused on the economy, it might not make a difference.
Robert Kuttner
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Too Close for Comfort
The case Obama should have been making the last four years
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Game, Set, Obama
The president did exactly what he needed to in tonight’s debate: He used Romney against Romney.
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Obama’s Town Hall To-Do List
A cheat sheet for the president on how to get top marks at tonight’s debate at Hofstra University
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(Fiscal) Cliffs Notes
The debt, the sequester, and the 2012 campaign
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Nailing Jell-O to the Wall
Vice-President Joe Biden did a commendable job pointing out the fallacies in the Romney/Ryan platform, but President Obama will need to finish the fact-checking in next week’s town hall.
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Obama: Giving Away Social Security
The president’s position on retirement benefits is indeed almost identical to Romney’s—and that’s no good thing.
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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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Crying Fraud, Then Creating It
Republicans found themselves the villains of their own conspiracy theories in Florida.
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Good News, Bad News on the Economy
Job-creation numbers are being revised upward, while the economic growth rate is dropping.