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- The Obama-Kennedy Question - January 24, 2009
- Some of that optimistic plurality may come from voters convinced the nation was declining so long as George W. Bush was president but confident that it will...
- Is a Change in Migration Patterns at Hand? - January 17, 2009
- Latinos appear to account for a disproportionate share of mortgage foreclosures. The Census Bureau estimates that net immigration in 2007-08 was 14 percent...
- Obama's Economic Strategy - January 10, 2009
- To be sure, he called for massive infrastructure spending, for alternative energy investment, for more health care spending -- all items from the Democratic...
- No Permanent Majorities in America - January 3, 2009
- The Republican Party throughout our history has been a party whose core constituency has been those who are considered, by themselves and by others, to be...
- Obama May Be an Aloof President - December 27, 2008
- Similarly, after the election Obama chose not to campaign for Democrat Jim Martin in Georgia's Dec. 2 Senate runoff -- the election that, depending on how the...
- Expectations of Hope and Change - December 20, 2008
- The constituency Obama assembled during his campaign has a decided new-generational tilt. The Edison-Mitofsky exit poll tells us that Obama carried voters...
- Who Is at Fault for Big Three's Decline? - US News & WR - December 16, 2008
- By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogMickey Kaus, pretty much alone among the commentators I've been reading, indicts "Wagner Act unionism" for the decline...
- Chicago Politics Stains Obama - December 13, 2008
- That was a different tableau from the one we have seen unfold in Chicago this past week. Furcolo was an intelligent man, disappointed to have failed to win...
- Message From Georgia: This Too Shall Pass - December 6, 2008
- Some 3.9 million Georgians voted -- a 19 percent increase over November 2004. Undoubtedly many of these new voters were eager to cast their votes for the man...
- Managing Risk in an Unstable World - November 29, 2008
- The problem was that the risk models were based on the experience of only the last seven years or so, and that both the Clinton and Bush administrations and...
- The Limits of Success -- and Failure - November 22, 2008
- We come out of the first period of consecutive eight-year presidencies since the administrations of James Madison and James Monroe saying that we believe our...
- Bailout Incompetence All Around - US News & World Report - November 20, 2008
- Detroit Automakers a Relic of the Past - November 15, 2008
- The issue is whether the federal government should bail out, with a capital injection the size of what would have been unthinkable four months ago, General Motors and...
- A Big-Government Generation - National Post - November 12, 2008
- Triumph of Temperament, Not Policy - November 8, 2008
- To be sure, Obama ran a skillful campaign. Just as he capitalized on Hillary Clinton's weakness in party caucuses (she won more votes and delegates than he...
- Obama's New Deal No Better Than Old One - October 29, 2008
- These policies did break the downward spiral. But, as Amity Shlaes points out in "The Forgotten Man," they failed to restore growth. Double-digit...
- Why McCain Continues to Trail Obama in PA - US News - October 27, 2008
- A Reality Check on Obama's Wish List - October 25, 2008
- So is a slide toward trade protectionism. The breakdown of the Doha Round and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to bring the Colombia Free Trade Agreement...
- Are the Polls Accurate? - Wall Street Journal - October 22, 2008
- Can Joe the Plumber Turn it Around? - October 18, 2008
- Yet the narrow lead that McCain had after the conventions vanished (if the tracking polls can be trusted) precisely on Sept. 18, the day that Treasury Secretary...
- Obama vs. Free Speech - October 11, 2008
- Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg's example. We will...
- The Race Isn't Necessarily Over - US News & World Report - October 9, 2008
- The Year of Campaign Chaos - October 4, 2008
- At the beginning of the year, things seemed fairly simple. Democrats had a big lead in party identification and appeared headed to victory. Democrats seemed likely to...
- Are We at an Inflection Point? - September 29, 2008
- Which raises the question of whether the financial ructions of 2007-08 (09?) will move them back again. One reason to believe this is possible is the passage of time....
- Key to Passing the Deal is Insurance - US News & WR - September 26, 2008
- The Old Economic Rule Doesn't Work - September 20, 2008
- Moreover, the political blame is widely dispersed. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Democrats and Republicans in Congress have all pushed policies to increase home...
- Advantage Shifting to McCain - US News & World Report - September 16, 2008
- McCain Flies His Campaign Past Obama - September 13, 2008
- "The key to victory is operating at a faster tempo than the enemy," Boyd's biographer Robert Coram writes. "The key thing to understand about Boyd's version...
- The Battle of the Party Themes - September 6, 2008
- George W. Bush's convention produced one that was sustainable until Katrina and the 2005-06 meltdown in Iraq -- yet that may be redeemed in history by the success of...
- A Star is Born in the GOP - US News & World Report - September 4, 2008
- Hillary Gets a Good Start on 2012 - US News & World Report - August 27, 2008
- Obama Needs to Explain His Ties to William Ayers - August 26, 2008
- You might wonder what Obama was doing working with a character like this. And you might wonder how an unrepentant terrorist got a huge grant and cooperation from the...
- The Chosen Obama Narrative - August 23, 2008
- In 1988, Democrats presented Michael Dukakis as the son of immigrants who produced the Massachusetts miracle; Republicans presented George H.W. Bush as the pioneer who...
- Echoes of Berlin - August 16, 2008
- Belatedly, on Aug. 13, George W. Bush reminded us once again of Berlin, when he announced that the United States would airlift supplies and send Secretary of...
- The Ghosts of Political Leanings - August 9, 2008
- In two broad swaths of the country, John McCain is running about as well as George W. Bush did or better. One is the route of the westward surge of New England...
- Polls Continue to Show an Unstable Presidential Campaign - August 2, 2008
- But over the next several days, Obama bounced back down. Gallup showed him leading by a statistically insignificant 45 percent to 44 percent as of July 31. That's the...
- An Earthquake in Alaska Politics - US News & World Report - July 30, 2008
- A Step Back From Enviro Lunacy - July 26, 2008
- In contrast, lobbyists and litigators for environmental restriction groups have produced energy policies that I suspect future generations will regard as lunatic....
- Ghosts of 1976 in Today's Campaign - July 19, 2008
- Ford's political situation then was far more parlous than McCain's today. An early summer Gallup poll showed him trailing Carter by 62 percent to 29 percent. He had...
- We're Not Leaving - July 12, 2008
- And we didn't. Truman had no idea how Berlin could be supplied. But Clay persuaded him to order the Air Force to send more planes that it wanted to keep, pristine and...