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Romney helped people, Part 2

May 15, 2012 Comments Off by

In a previous post, we discussed the fact that companies like Bain Capital have a net positive effect on job creation. By making companies more efficient, some people lose their jobs, yes, but everyone loses their job if the company goes under. Bain takes …

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Polls: Obama’s gay marriage stance continues to hurt him

May 14, 2012 Comments Off by

The data continue to come in, and Obama’s sudden, miraculous, saintlike affirmation of the timely beauty of same-sex unions does not appear to be helping him.

WH getting blowback from African-American churches over gay-marriage stance

Barney Frank told the panel on ABC’s This Week that “

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Bullies (like Obama) are often insecure

May 14, 2012 Comments Off by

In the previous post, we discussed the media’s naked attempt to paint Mitt Romney as an anti-gay bully, right at the moment when Obama is burnishing his lightworker cred with his entranced followers on the left. It wasn’t a particularly good attempt, though it …

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The perfect post-debate advice for Gingrich

Jan 24, 2012 Comments Off

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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