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Why Romney?

Apr 03, 2012 Comments Off by

Judging by the email I receive from my readers, there are a lot of Republicans who feel that Mitt Romney doesn’t pass the conservative litmus test.  Some of them even threaten to sit out the presidential election if Governor Romney secures the nomination.  Although I …

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Unemployment hasn’t actually fallen at all under Obama

Feb 09, 2012 Comments Off by

That sounds like a wild thing to say, but here is the rationale, and it’s actually quite simple:

For starters, almost the entire decline in the unemployment rate over the last year has been ephemeral. The rate is calculated by dividing the people who do …

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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

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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ICYMI: Gingrich rips CNN at debate (and more)

Jan 20, 2012 Comments Off

Granted, we’ve come to expect this sort of display from Newt Gingrich, but still, it’s worth watching.

 

This is great for Republicans and conservatives exhausted from decades of biased media. But how would it play in a general election? Would fiery, feisty, media-bashing Newt work …

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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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