Explaining Romney’s Appeal
Shock is a particularly revealing emotion. Find what shocks a person, and you get a pretty vivid sense of her beliefs and social circle. But act shocked too often or about the wrong things, and folks...
View ArticleThe Debate Questions Not Asked, Part 2: Student Loan Debt
Editor’s note: Binders full of women. Sketchy tax plans. Horses and bayonets. If you followed the presidential debates, you recognize these and a multitude of other sound bites and catch-phrases....
View ArticleWhere Lies the Key to Romney’s Heart?
I have written before about politicians’ beliefs, and now I circle back to the topic in this column, my last before 30 people decide the fate of the free world based on whether or not Ohio State beats...
View ArticleGod Endorses Obama
[quote]Romney had to tack to the right during the primary season. Since then, he has recalibrated his campaign to focus on his concern for the middle class, and that is believable if the real Mitt...
View ArticleFour Days Out: Electoral Math
Three days ago, I started this three-part series on electoral math updates. (I’ll have Part 3 on Election Day!) As you’re about to see, little has changed since then, but I not only have a new scenario...
View ArticleElection Roundtable: Obama and Romney at End of the Road
Editor’s note: At climactic moments during Election 2012, we gathered our political writers for roundtable discussions. This is the final one. Tomorrow we will update with predictions. (UPDATE: We now...
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Where to Flee if Your Candidate Loses
In every election dating back to at least Lincoln, Americans have whined about leaving the country if their guy loses. Then they annoyingly stick around anyway. If you’re giving serious consideration...
View ArticlePreviewing (and Predicting) Election Night
Author’s note: Print this article and have it with you tonight as an Election Night guide. If I’m wrong, you’ll want the hard evidence, as I’ll lobby our editors to take this column down as rapidly as...
View ArticleA Victory Lap For Obama
Editor’s note: After President Obama’s late-night victory speech, Construction political writers Ben Hoffman and Anthony Resnick spent the day exchanging emails. This is their conversation.ANTHONY: So...
View ArticleThe Demise of the GOP?
This is my final column on the long, strange trip that was the 2012 Election. Yet, despite its windy path, the destination was utterly familiar: President Barack Obama comfortably won the Electoral...
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