Obama, the Good Soldier By Debra J. Saunders
Two important questions were asked at Tuesday night's presidential debate.
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October 9, 2008
October 9, 2008
Will McCain Make the Investor Connection? By Lawrence Kudlow
While the presidential candidates were debating in Nashville on Tuesday night, the Asian stock markets were selling off by 10 percent. Earlier in the day, the U.S. market plunged by 500 points. These were big-time drops, yet presidential debaters never talk about the stock market. Nashville was no exception.
October 9, 2008
Is The Electoral Dam Breaking for Obama By Larry J.. Sabato
All season, political observers have been speculating when, if ever, the Electoral College and the state and national polls would reflect the basic pro-Democratic fundamentals of the presidential election year.
October 8, 2008
A Great Line By Susan Estrich
I'm happy to give my friend Madeleine Albright credit for the line, as Starbucks apparently has. But the truth is I've been using it for years in speeches to women about how we need to help each other get ahead in business, politics and academia.
October 8, 2008
Bafflement By Tony Blankley
There was a joke going around conservative circles during the mid-1960s that we conservatives were warned that if we voted for Barry Goldwater, America would get deeper into the Vietnam War. The punch line was that we did vote for Goldwater and America did get deeper into Vietnam.
October 7, 2008
Why Independents Care So Much About Health Care By Froma Harrop
Political independents now rank health care second among the issues they most want the presidential candidates to discuss, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for September. The No. 1 issue for independents, as well as for Democrats and Republicans, is the economy.
October 7, 2008
The Supersize Bailout By Debra J. Saunders
The only way Congress could pass a $700 billion economic bailout package last week was to spend an extra $110 billion that the federal government does not have.
October 5, 2008
Return to Redistricting Sanity By Debra J. Saunders
As reform measures go, Proposition 11 -- the redistricting reform measure -- is hardly a transformational law likely to supercharge activists (of any political stripe) eager to make Sacramento more effective and more accountable to the public.
October 4, 2008
The Year of Campaign Chaos By Michael Barone
Politics ordinarily has a certain predictability. Yet presidential politics this year has often seemed to resemble what science writer James Gleick described in his book "Chaos."
October 3, 2008
The Palin-Biden Verdict By Debra J. Saunders
She passed. He passed. Palin fared better going against Joe Biden than Katie Couric.
October 3, 2008
A Heartbeat Away By Susan Estrich
For all the Republicans' complaints about Gwen Ifill, the moderator's questions were softballs compared to what Sarah Palin faced from Katie Couric. Ifill did not demand that Palin list (OK, how about just name more than one?) Supreme Court decisions. She did not push on the issue of foreign policy experience.
October 3, 2008
Democrats Winning the Registration Wars By Rhodes Cook
The presidential debate season is just underway. The polls are in flux. The issue agenda--which has already shifted in the last month from the Sarah Palin effect to "lipstick on a pig" to the nation's worst economic crisis since the Depression--may shift again before Election Day.
October 3, 2008
There’s More Here than Just the Bailout Package By Lawrence Kudlow
On the morning after Senate passage of the Treasury rescue bill stocks are down 200 points. So there is no silver bullet to our economic woes.
October 2, 2008
Law for Poor Didn't Cause Meltdown By Froma Harrop
Accomplished Googlers can probably find the original talking points off which dozens of conservatives made essentially the same case: The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 caused the financial crisis.
October 2, 2008
Making the Bailout Less Toxic By Joe Conason
The initial failure to pass bailout legislation reflected a political system as bereft of confidence as the financial markets. President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had no credibility to match the arrogance of their initial demand for absolute power in distributing $700 billion of public assistance (the old synonym for welfare).
October 2, 2008
Our Bair Necessity By Lawrence Kudlow
You know what? Hank Paulson may not be the most powerful financial person in the country right now. That honor goes to Sheila Bair, the chairman of the FDIC.
October 2, 2008
Bonanza. Bailout. Bonanza. By Debra J. Saunders
Who do I blame for this financial disaster? Let me count the villains. Start with President Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
October 2, 2008
Senate Sensibilities - The October 2008 Update By Larry J. Sabato
There are a few changes to report in the nation's Senate races since we last reviewed them in July-almost all of them in favor of the Democratic candidates. Yet the fundamental outlook hasn't changed terribly much. The Democrats will pick up a fair number of seats to pad their slim 51-to-49 margin. They are defending a mere 12 seats, and all their incumbents are running again. The Republicans have drawn the short straw, trying to protect 23 seats with five incumbents retiring in a tough political environment for the GOP.
October 2, 2008
The Importance of Branding: A Commentary
What we've all witnessed this week was more than a failure of Wall Street or of Washington, it was a catastrophic failure of branding.
October 1, 2008
There's Still Time, John McCain By Dick Morris
Trailing six points in Rasmussen’s poll, having fallen four points since he suspended his campaign last week, the question for John McCain is: Haven’t you learned anything?
