Recent Votes

• Wednesday's campaign round-up

  Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * In a new video, Jim Messina, President Obama's campaign manager, notes that the campaign raised $43.6 million in April, which i …

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• The death of a dubious idea

  Last summer, there were plenty of centrists who expressed genuine excitement about a project called Americans Elect, which its backers perceived as a vehicle towards bipartisan governing. Thomas Friedman, last summer, devoted a column to singing Americans Elect's praises, saying …

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• Romney wants 'a lot of credit' for policy he condemned

  Mitt Romney likes to blame President Obama for developments the president didn't really have anything to do with. As it turns out, the inverse is true, too -- Romney likes to take credit for developments the Republican didn't have anything to do with, either.

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• Invasion of the 'Kanamits'

  Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) caused a stir recently when he accused dozens of House Democrats of being secret members of the Communist Party. In his latest Facebook message, however, the right-wing congressman has a new label in mind. Apparently complaining about Democratic efforts t …

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• The best lies $6.1 million can buy

  If President Obama has failed as spectacularly as his Republican detractors argue, shouldn't it be easier for them to come up with honest attack ads? In other words, if Obama's presidency has been genuinely awful, the right shouldn't have any trouble at all coming up with devasta …

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