Battleground Virginia: Advantage Obama?
Doug Mataconis · 7 CommentsObama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.
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April Jobs Report Disappointing To Say The Least
Doug Mataconis · No CommentsOnce again, the jobs market appears to be slowing.
Dog Eating, Composite Girlfriends, And Other Memes That Won’t Win An Election
Doug Mataconis · 17 CommentsThe argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.
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- NFL Veteran Junior Seau Dead At 43
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- Newt Gingrich Ending Campaign $4,000,000 In Debt
- Chinese Dissident Leaves U.S. Embassy, Will Stay In China
- Obama, Afghanistan, and ‘Extraordinary Security Precautions’
- The West Wing ‘Walk & Talk’
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DC’s Taxi System Hikes Fees, Frustrations
James Joyner · 19 CommentsThe price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.
Did The United States Betray Chen Guangcheng?
Doug Mataconis · 30 CommentsWhat seemed like a diplomatic success has begun to unravel very quickly.
Romney’s Gay Ex-Spokesman
James Joyner · 26 CommentsRuthlessly avoiding fights that aren’t worth the risk is shrewd leadership. But Romney still needs to show he can fight and win.
Obama’s Composite Girlfriend and Other Things I Don’t Care About
A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.
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College Football Playoff: It’s Complicated
College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.
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Is The Sex In “Game of Thrones” Gratuitous?
HBO’s Game of Thrones is violent and full of sex. Is it too much?
[FAIR WARNING: SPOILERS]
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Grenell Resignation Tied To Social Conservative Flap Over His Homosexuality
Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.
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Did The GOP Fall For The Obama Campaign’s Osama bin Laden Trap?
The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.
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Drone Creep and the Rumsfeld Question
My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.
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Parties Play to Win the Game
Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.
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Openly Gay Romney Aide Resigns Amid Furor From Social Conservatives
Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.
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The bin Laden Raid And The 2012 Elections
Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.
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SEALs Swift Boating Obama?
Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.
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The Day After In North Korea
Is the world ready for a post-Kim North Korea?
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OTB Caption Contest Winners
The Compensating For Something Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
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Mitt Romney’s Incredibly Narrow Path To Victory
The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.
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Another Stagnant Spring For The Economy?
The economic tea leaves don’t look disastrous, but they don’t look all that great either.
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How Risky Was the Osama bin Laden Raid?
We seldom blame presidents for bold actions that go wrong. We despise them for appearing weak and indecisive.
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Presidential Experience Redux
Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?
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OTB Caption Contest Winners
The Donkey Hokey Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
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Obama vs. Romney: Experience Factor
Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.
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Obama Spikes Football on Bin Laden Killing
The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.
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First Quarter GDP Report: Economic Growth Sluggish At Best
A disappointing beginning to 2012.
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Romney Campaign Warns Of Soviet Threat To Czechoslovakia
Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.
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Supreme Court Appears Sympathetic To Some Parts Of Arizona Immigration Law
The Solicitor General had another bad day in Court yesterday.
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