[ Posted Monday, February 6th, 2012 – 16:31 PST ]
Mitt Romney's gaffe last week (reproduced in full, above) is going to wind up the "gaffe that keeps on giving" for Barack Obama and the Democrats in this election cycle. Because the more Romney's comment is examined and dissected, the worse it looks for him. This could, in fact, be the defining moment for Mitt Romney as a national political presence. That phrase is often bandied about in politics, but I use it here in the full literal sense of "defining moment" -- a point in time which absolutely cements an image in the public mind of who you are and what you stand for as a politician. The image, quite obviously, is not a good one for Romney.
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[ Posted Friday, February 3rd, 2012 – 17:10 PST ]
Mitt Romney, frontrunner for the Republican nomination, announced he wasn't too worried about poor people. Maybe it would be fun to see Romney debate Joe Biden, just because nobody would know what to expect from either of them. Heh.
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[ Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 – 18:03 PST ]
As we wend our way through the Republican primary season, at times predicting the outcome of a single state's race is very hard to do. At other times, it is actually pretty easy. Florida looks to be one of the latter.
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[ Posted Friday, January 27th, 2012 – 17:27 PST ]
Well, that was an eventful week in politics, wasn't it?
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[ Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012 – 17:31 PST ]
OK, to be completely honest, we just felt like beating up on some Republicans today.
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[ Posted Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 – 17:50 PST ]
O'Malley makes a good point. President Obama's re-election team should heed it.
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[ Posted Friday, January 13th, 2012 – 16:50 PST ]
Not a whole lot has been happening in Washington, due to Congress being out on one of their countless month-long vacations. Not a whole lot of Democrats have been in the news, either, since the Republican primary season is sucking all the oxygen out of the political arena right now.
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[ Posted Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 – 21:48 PST ]
I thought I'd wait to write today until the Iowa results were in, because I haven't done one of these "snap judgment" sorts of things for a while. As I begin, roughly 85 percent of the votes have been reported.
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[ Posted Monday, January 2nd, 2012 – 16:20 PST ]
I realize everyone is probably already sick of hearing predictions about the Iowa Republican caucuses, and if this does indeed describe you then you should probably go watch a football game or something -- because that's exactly what we're going to do today: throw prognosticatory Hawkeye darts at the wall, and take our chances as we may.
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[ Posted Friday, December 16th, 2011 – 18:36 PST ]
As always, if you disagree with any (or all) of my picks, feel free to make your own in the comments. The categories are completely open to interpretation, and don't forget that there will be a "Part 2" column next week, so I can likely squeeze things I forgot in there.
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