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How Rove Became Rove

Posted by | Dec 1, 2012 | , |

1970 Poses as a volunteer for a Democratic Senate candidate in Illinois and circulates a letter to homeless people, advertising “free food, beer, girls and a good time for all” at the candidate’s campaign event. 1974–77 The...

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Why Is Romney Still in the Race?

Posted by | Oct 1, 2012 | , |

One month before the election, most polls have the president leading by a narrow popular-vote margin, which the Romney campaign seems incapable of closing. And Obama’s lead in high-population states provides an advantage over a...

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Why American Workers Aren’t Buying Mitt Romney

Posted by | Sep 1, 2012 | |

edel ohio_romneyThere’s a very simple reason why Republican Mitt Romney is not going to win in November with the support of working-class Americans, white or otherwise. Unlike predecessors Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain, Romney is a rich businessman, not a career politician. To the working class, he looks like a boss.

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The Party of Confrontation

Posted by | Aug 1, 2012 | |

In their book It’s Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein explore the causes of permanent conflict in...

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