Michael Barone
MICHAEL BARONE:: Obama’s Marriage ‘Evolution’ Poll Problem – NRO
By MB Snow at May 17, 2012 | 1:24 pm
Michael Barone Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events — and the polls — over the past few weeks. In matchups against Mitt Romney, the president is leading by only 47 to 45 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls. A CBS/New York Times panel-back poll, in which interviewers call ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE:: Rattled Obama team making miscues – WashEx
By MB Snow at May 16, 2012 | 12:55 am
byMichael Barone In this combo made from file photos, President Barack Obama, speaks at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, on April 25, 2012, left, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Wilmington, Del. on April 10, 2012. The Associated Press is looking at the positions that President Obama and ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: Three different ways to look at the 2012 campaign | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 13, 2012 | 1:18 pm
Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario. But I said there were other possible scenarios. I can think of three. The 1964/1972 scenario: ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE:: Long, Hard Slog Ahead in Presidential Race – RCP
By MB Snow at May 10, 2012 | 1:15 pm
By Michael Barone Just as the political air is filled with talk of the inevitability of Barack Obama's re-election -- we are told that the kids at his Chicago headquarters are brimming with confidence -- in come some poll numbers showing him behind. Not by anything statistically significant, mind you. But when you get the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls and the ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: OBAMA’S CHICAGO POLITICS: Thuggery, not civility | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 2, 2012 | 12:53 am
By MICHAEL BARONE, May 1, 2012, Washington Examiner It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish. AVS stands for Address Verification System. It's the ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: Obama losing rock star status with young | WashEx
By MB Snow at April 29, 2012 | 12:30 am
By MICHAEL BARONE, April 28, 2012, Washington Examiner Last week Barack Obama delivered speeches at universities in Chapel Hill, N.C., Iowa City, Iowa, and Boulder, Colo. The trip was, press secretary Jay Carney assured us, official government business, not political campaigning. It's part of a pattern. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller has counted 130 appearances by ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE:: Shrinking Problem: Illegal Immigration From Mexico – RCP
By MB Snow at April 26, 2012 | 12:40 am
The illegal immigration problem is going away. That's the conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on Mexican immigration to the United States. Pew's demographers have carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican government, and have come up with estimates of ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE:: Liberal Nostalgiacs Don’t Understand Jobs of the Future – RCP
By MB Snow at April 23, 2012 | 12:53 am
By Michael Barone I don't know how many times I've seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a comfortable retirement. As it happens, I grew up in Detroit and for a time lived ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: To win burbs, Mitt may pick ‘double-vanilla’ veep | WashEx
By MB Snow at April 18, 2012 | 12:50 am
By MICHAEL BARONE, April 17, 2012, Washington Examiner Some 20 million Americans in primaries and caucuses will take part in selecting the Republican presidential nominee. One person will choose the vice presidential nominee. This has long struck me as absurd: One person choosing someone who, as a result, might become president for as long as 10 years. But just ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE:: Romney Trails Obama, but Key Numbers Break His Way – RCP
By MB Snow at April 12, 2012 | 12:53 am
Now that Rick Santorum has "suspended" his campaign, we can stop pretending and can say what has been clear for weeks: Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president. The general election campaign has begun. In some quarters, it is assumed that Barack Obama will be re-elected without too much difficulty. There are reports that staffers at Obama's Chicago ... Go To Article
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