Joe, Nick, and Allison review the town hall debate and preview the foreign policy debate. Joe thinks Libya is no longer an issue for the Romney campaign to exploit and Nick bemoans China bashing.
OK it wasn’t completely holding hands and unicorns, but for the better part of 90 minutes Barack Obama outlined a firm and reasonable foreign policy and Mitt Romney explained that he agreed wholeheartedly but swore he could do it better…for…
If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you’ve encountered my healthy skepticism of the campaign operation advising Mitt Romney. Despite his recent surge in the polls — which I view as an expected reordering reflecting the established divide in…
Tonight we are treated to the final presidential debate of this cycle. This time the subject is foreign policy and it’s format mirrors the format of the first presidential debate with six 15-minute segments each devoted to an overarching question.…
After vaulting into a modest national lead on the back of a dominating debate performance in Denver, Mitt Romney’s campaign is now hoping no one bothered to watch the Vice Presidential or Second Presidential Debates where his ticket got beaten…
Obama was on the Daily Show last night. I don’t have video as of press time, but here’s an article about it. Dilbert isn’t funny. Neither is its creator. One more article gathering data to show that cutting taxes does…
I am not privy to the super scientific opinion tracking that the Obama campaign have at their disposal (for more, read The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns). But it seems to me that the campaign grasps issues…
Charles Pierce writes a beautiful review of the debate. Seriously worth reading. Did you think Romney did all right in the debate? You may have been reading the Fox News transcript of the debate, which was edited to improve his…
So I don’t like this town hall debate format. From a debate perspective, the town hall plays to superficiality — encouraging more questions over depth — incentivizes cheap “I feel your pain” pandering over real answers, and historically banishes the…
Last night liberals got to see their day brighten and Andrew Sullivan has walked back from the ledge. The Barack Obama that allowed Mitt Romney to push him around two weeks ago was gone, replaced by a crisp, focused political…