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The latest Pew Research Center poll shows Mitt Romney ahead of President Barack Obama among likely voters, 49% to 45%. But the latest Gallup poll shows the President Obama leading Romney among likely voters, 50% to 45%. What gives? The Pew poll covered the days immediately following last Wednesday’s presidential debate. It didn’t include last weekend. [...]
The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top – among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people – and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequality in America is at record levels. The 400 richest Americans [...]
Unless the Republican convention in Tampa is swept away by hurricane force winds — itself a fascinating prospect for a party, so many of whose activists claim to be in regular and direct contact with the Almighty — the media will make next week an entirely R week. Monday through Thursday, it will be a [...]
Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education (in fact, Obama never actually called for universal college education but only for a year or more of training after high school). Santorum needn’t worry. America is already making it harder for young people of modest means to [...]
My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says. They’re losing even more Americans now, as the four remaining GOP candidates seek to out-do one another in their race for the [...]
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