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Of all the sins to which an American can succumb, the worst may be dependence on the state. Think back for a moment to the two biggest missteps in the 2012 presidential election: Mitt Romney’s dismissal of the “47 percent” of people “dependent on the government,” and President Obama’s “you didn’t build that,” intended to [...]
And so, amidst much fireworks and fanfare, the curtain closes on yet another US presidential election. After well over a year of campaigning and an estimated $6 billion spent (including by SuperPacs), we ended up with the same president and roughly the same Democratic-controlled Senate and GOP-controlled House. Status quo prevailed. It looks like we can look [...]
The U.S. presidential election, which has been ongoing for over a year, is racing down the homestretch. And it looks like it will be a razor-close finish. The two leading candidates, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, are neck and neck in the nationwide polls and statistically tied in most swing state polls. Even [...]
On November 6, either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will emerge victorious after an exhausting electoral race, setting the wheels in motion for the coming four years. An ocean away, on November 8, more than 2,000 members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will gather in Beijing. Approximately a week later, the members of the [...]
With the debates over and less than two weeks to go before the November 6 election in the United States, the presidential campaigns are shifting into their final phase: persuasion of undecided voters, and mobilization of base voters. The main tool for persuasion of undecided voters is the barrage of television ads that are invading [...]
President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. It’s good policy, and it would smoke out Mitt Romney as being of, by, and for Wall Street — and not on the side of average Americans. It would also remind America [...]
Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren’t even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryan ticket is falling further and further behind. How can this be? Because Republicans are failing the central test of electability. Instead of putting together the largest possible [...]
Watch Professor David Coates (Wake Forest University) discuss the upcoming US Presidential election with Dr Henning Meyer, Editor of Social Europe Journal. You might also be interested in David’s recent appearance on an interesting panel on MSNBC.
From a European perspective, the US election should be no contest, as these results from an opinion survey by Pew indicate. Now if you are a Republican, this may just confirm your view that Europeans are forced to live in just the kind of socialist state that Obama wants to turn the US into, and that we [...]
Considerable attention has been paid to the policies of the Romney-led Republicans and their wealthy supporters. After the crisis and its aftermath – save the rich because they are systemically important – it is quite something to go before the electorate with a squeeze-the-vulnerable-and-cut-taxes-on-the-rich agenda. Not least if you made millions with private equity and [...]
Latest Polls: Obama leads Romney in key battleground states – what does it mean? Mitt Romney is now the official presidential nominee for the Republican Party, having been crowned at the GOP convention on Tuesday night along with his running mate Representative Paul Ryan. The US presidential race is heating up, as the Obama and [...]
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster. A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion. Last Sunday’s New York Times even reported on its front page that [...]
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