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State of the Union facts vs. Obama’s fictions

Jan 25, 2012 Comments Off by

SOTU FACT: President Obama’s Policies Have Made Our Economy Worse

CLAIM: President Obama says our economy has “momentum.”

“As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum.” (President Obama, State of the Union Address, January 24, 2012)

FACT: President …

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The perfect post-debate advice for Gingrich

Jan 24, 2012 Comments Off by

Political predictions are often hard to make. Even people who are smart, savvy, and informed make them and then turn out to be wrong. We rarely go back and check, but it’s true even of the finest pundits.

Similarly, when pundits give advice about what a …

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Start thinking Gingrich?

Jan 23, 2012 Comments Off by

Yesterday, I called your attention to analysis suggesting that in spite of Gingrich’s rather resounding victory in South Carolina, the race is still Romney’s to lose. I offered a potential counter-analysis that this race has, since the beginning, been all about Romney vs. a series …

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Romney debate win followup: Some Romney electoral strengths

Jan 08, 2012 Comments Off

In the previous post, we talked about the trend of opinion that Romney won the debate last night. The trend is not uniform, of course, but it is strong. Some of the recognition of Romney’s strength is enthusiastic; in other cases, it is …

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Observer consensus: Romney wins debate

Jan 08, 2012 Comments Off

In scanning conservative new media this morning, the consensus appears to be fairly clear. There are differing opinions on who came in second and how the others did generally, but a lot of the opinions in the conservative punditocracy appear to agree that Romney came …

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