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Yoni Golijov / July 16, 2012 2:47 pm
...in my last column, the medical-industrial complex (health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc.) gave Obama the largest amount of money it has ever given any presidential candidate, $19 million, and it gave the Democrats $90 million in total. It gave the Republicans slightly less, $76 million. This makes perfect sense. The Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress (with a majority in the House and a supermajo...
Ayelet Pearl / July 3, 2012 1:43 am
...counts” has been challenged by cynics for centuries. An individual vote, really, has little impact in an overall election – especially when dealing with the Electoral College; or when voting for an independent candidate, or a Democrat in a red state and a Republican in a blue one. While it is important to maintain an attitude that individual participation is vital to a thriving democracy, it is easy to lose sight of this when staring at overwhelm...
Maya Asheri / July 11, 2012 4:36 pm
...g on the good side of the Christian friends of the Holy Land. He can also try to harness the disappointment with Obama’s treatment of Israel, and hope to pluck some Jewish support (even if limited — the Jewish vote has been a Democrat stronghold for decades). It is no surprise, then, that Romney has declared multiple times, at least in so many words, that he will support Israel no matter what (he told an Israeli newspaper in 2011 that the “action...
Jamie Boothe / October 16, 2012 2:05 am
This election year has seen U.S. energy policy and the debate on global warming (does it exist, if it does who/what is responsible, and what we should do about it) get quite a bit of airtime, but from a distinctly 2012 tack. Both issues have traditionally been favorites of both parties’ respective bases; the Democratic base consistently tries to make the Party focus on tackling global warming and getting America off of fossil fuels immediately....
Yoni Golijov / June 28, 2012 1:35 pm
Wisconsin protests from Wikimedia Commons There’s a reason that one of the most popular chants in Madison, Wisconsin during protesters’ occupation of the capitol building was “This is what democracy looks like!” Because only being able to choose between two corporate-funded, unaccountable representatives is not democracy. There’s also a reason that the Democrats lost in Wisconsin earlier this month—not that incumbent governor Scott Walker outsp...
Jamie Boothe / October 16, 2012 1:54 am
...ual failure to show up for the previous debate. Obama, as he might put it, got a real shellacking from, of all people, his own supporters regarding his severely lackluster performance, and so it was up to Biden to relight the Democratic base’s enthusiasm. Indeed, his aggressive and take-no-prisoners approach surely made many a liberal beam with delight. But here’s the problem for Team Obama: the debates are not supposed to be about firing up the...
David Silberthau / September 25, 2012 12:51 am
...going to shift. It didn’t. Romney’s convention speech was going to be a rallying cry for conservatives everywhere. It wasn’t. And releasing a “summary” of Romney’s tax returns for the last 20 years was supposed to silence the Democrat critics. It hasn’t. Almost every single political move made by the Romney campaign, and by extension, the man himself, has been un-presidential. There are a lot of smart people in this country who agree, word for wo...
Andrew Tan / September 20, 2012 8:56 pm
photo from Wikimedia Commons With the Republican and Democratic National Conventions out of the way, the long-predicted political advertising spending spree for the lead up to November 6has finally gotten underway. More than $3 billion is expected to be spent on various types of ads (TV, radio, robocalls, mailers, and so on), an increase of $500 million over 2008. The Kantar/Campaign Media Analysis Group reports that as of early September, can...
Jamie Boothe / September 3, 2012 5:16 pm
...the Republican National Convention this week addressed the issue and how it is putting additional stress on the budgets of many families. One particularly scathing criticism of the president’s domestic energy policy came from Democrat (and formerly ardent Obama ’08 supporter)-turned-Republican Artur Davis. Davis, referencing then-candidate Obama’s Democratic nomination victory speech, skewered that “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to...
Taylor Thompson / February 22, 2012 1:20 pm
...d the South. The Republicans may not even arrive at their convention in Tampa with a nominee – and even if they do, he may very well be too bruised and too inadequate to stand a chance against Obama in the fall. But before my Democrat friends break out the champagne, I have a modest proposal. It’s simple. When all the sane options are gone, the crazy ones start to look pretty good. If no Republican candidate arrives in Tampa with enough delegates...
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