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Nov. 7 Nightmares: When Voting Goes Bad
As Americans count the hours until the election is over thousands of lawyers for the Obama and Romney campaigns are preparing for the possibility that the...
Town And Country
Barack Obama speaks in a different dialect when he stops in Ohio, which seems to be every other day now. Even when delivering his basic stump speech, he will aim...
Study: Late-Night Comedians Make More Romney Jokes than Obama Jokes
Early voting returns may show that Obama leads in swing states so far, but Mitt Romney is outpacing his opponent in a different arena.
Women Voters Won the Second Presidential Debate
Athens, Ohio A day later, there was no doubt about the winner of the second Presidential debate: Women. Both candidates lurched onto the campaign trail Wednesday...
Will Obama Bounce Back or Fall Below His Floor?
In early June, shortly after President Obama stumbled in a press conference by saying, “the private sector is doing fine,” his senior White House and campaign...
How Obama Is Leveraging the Power of the Incumbency in Swing States
President Obama has a soft spot for the state of Ohio, a crucial swing state that every Republican President has won en route to the White House. And as Jeffrey...
Obama’s Swing State Success Explained
Ron Brownstein may be the best in the business at reading polls, and here he explains a conundrum that has puzzled a fair number of political observers: why the...
Ad Nauseam
The presidential campaign has created a wonderful problem for television stations in swing states across America. How do they keep local businesses like car...
Decrying Campaign ‘Hatred,’ Romney Tries to Redefine Obama — and Change the Subject
Mitt Romney should have been feeling great on Tuesday night. Crisscrossing five swing states over four days, he was greeted by some of the best crowds of the...
Morning Must Reads: Problem
The economy added 163,000 jobs in July as the unemployment rate ticked up slightly. The glacial pace of recovery continues. The fundamentals are dramatically...
In the Holy Land, Romney to Court the Jewish Vote
Every four years, a Republican presidential candidate claims he can lure Jewish voters away from the Democratic Party. And every cycle, most of those voters stay...
Obama, Romney Stop Over in Nevada: Is It Still a True Toss-Up?
President Obama took a day trip to Nevada on Monday, a quick detour from his West Coast swing to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno. The...
Morning Must Reads: Building
–On CNBC, former Citi honcho Sandy Weill calls for breaking up the banks. –After more than a week of out-of-context attacks on “you didn’t build that,” Obama...
Between the Lines by Mark Halperin
In a race that consistently shows Barack Obama holding an ever-so-slight polling lead over Mitt Romney, neither man has been able to generate much momentum .....
Morning Must Reads: Fortune
The Fast and Furious truth: a Fortune investigation finds “gun walking” was never intentionally part of the ATF operation, politics and revenge inflamed the...
Was Obama’s Immigration Announcement Good Politics?
Penn: Obama’s announcement that the administration will stop deporting young undocumented immigrants is a win for the president on all levels. This order...
Morning Must Reads: Fall
Obama will take another crack a making economic contrast work. Romney puts “the private sector is doing fine” on TV. Jim Messina’s crash course with corporate...
Gay Marriage in the Swing States: Where Will Obama’s ‘Evolution’ Matter?
The electoral risks of President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage are difficult to game out. The positive national trend line in support of the concept is...
Who Was Our First Gay President?
You may have seen the other controversial newsmagazine cover this week, the one where Newsweek dubbed President Obama “The First Gay President“. But as Jim...
