Election 2012
ELECTION 2012:: A Nation of Singles | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at December 2, 2012 | 12:00 am
BY JONATHAN V. LAST -- For a brief moment last month—roughly a 72-hour span beginning at 11:00 p.m. on November 6 and concluding late in the evening of November 9—everyone in America was interested in demographics. That’s because, in addition to rewarding the just, punishing the wicked, and certifying that America was (for the moment) not racist, ... Go To Article
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WEEKEND INTERVIEW with Harvey Mansfield: The Crisis of American Self-Government – WSJ
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:55 am
By SOHRAB AHMARI, November 30, 2012 -- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's 'pet dissenter,' on the 2012 election, the real cost of entitlements, and why he sees reason for hope. Cambridge, Mass. 'We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's ... Go To Article
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GUY BENSON: Republicans’ Ace in the Hole: Simpson-Bowles? – Guy Benson
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:50 am
Guy Benson, Political Editor, Townhall.com-Nov 30, 2012 -- Democrats appear to have the upper hand on the politics of the fiscal cliff, which might explain theirbrash pronouncements and mind-blowing conceptualization of "compromise." This morning I outlined three possible contingencies for Republicans, none of which is especially attractive. But is there ... Go To Article
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CHRIS CILLIZZA: A must-see 2012 election map
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:35 am
By Chris Cillizza - November 30, 2012 at 2:12 pm -- Regular Fix readers know that we are BIG fans of the Patchwork Nation project — an attempt to go beyond the simplistic geographic or socioeconomic categories by which we slice and dice voters and instead develop a richer (and more accurate) way to view the various subsets of our American electorate. So, when we ... Go To Article
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PAUL MIRENGOFF: Inside Mitt Romney’s polling numbers | PowerLine
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:05 am
NOVEMBER 30, 2012 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF I doubt that many of our readers want to look back at the election; more likely they have gotten beyond that defeat, as November draws to a close. But a few may find it worthwhile to read this piece by Noam Scheiber about Romney’s internal polling numbers. The Romney campaign’s polls, taken during the final weekend of the ... Go To Article
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OBAMA’S Perpetual Campaign: When Will The Nation Tire Of Not Having An Executive In The White House? | Mediaite
By MB Snow at November 29, 2012 | 10:35 am
by Noah Rothman | 1:24 pm, November 28th -- With a dire fiscal crisis bearing down on the nation and the need for closed-door negotiations and face-saving compromises for squeezed members of Congress never more apparent, President Barack Obama has embarked on yet another political campaign. This time, he is agitating for public support for increased tax rates on the ... Go To Article
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REPUBLICANS: Time To Boycott The RNC – USA
By MB Snow at November 29, 2012 | 8:18 am
By Alicia Colon, Nov. 27, 2012 -- Instead of having focus groups to find out how the middle class feels about candidates and issues why not have town hall meetings organized by inner city community churches and social clubs? How about spending some money in that community hiring help to cater and to secure these events? Throughout the 2012 election, I kept receiving ... Go To Article
HENNINGER: The Racializing of American Politics – WSJ
By MB Snow at November 29, 2012 | 12:55 am
By DANIEL HENNINGER, WONDER LAND November 28, 2012 -- Even the exit polls now force people to put themselves in a racial category. This is the most violated saying in American public life: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL: A cliff of Democrats’ choosing – WaPo
By MB Snow at November 29, 2012 | 12:50 am
By George F. Will, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care — expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion ... Go To Article
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CADDELL: We Can Do Better: An America That Can Imagine Itself
By MB Snow at November 28, 2012 | 9:48 am
by PATRICK CADDELL 28 Nov 2012 -- America is in deep trouble. Everyone realizes it, even people who just voted for “four more years” in the recent election. A Rasmussen poll from August found that just 14 percent of Americans think that America’s children will be better off than their parents. And another survey found that 63 percent of recent college ... Go To Article
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