Category Archives: Washington Post

The end of the Obama honeymoon?

Posted on March 21st, 2013

Posted by Chris Cillizza We’ve grappled in this space with how long President Obama’s second political honeymoon will last – and what he might be able to accomplish in that time. In the immediate aftermath of his victory last November, President Obama’s popularity surged and Republicans in Congress capitulated to him on the fiscal cliff [...]

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Charles Krauthammer: Cliff-jumping with Barack

Posted on December 2nd, 2012

By Charles Krauthammer   Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?   House Speaker John Boehner already made the preemptive concession of agreeing to raise revenue. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting. [...]

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President Obama, Mitt Romney arrive at Hofstra for final debate preparations

Posted on October 16th, 2012

By Scott Wilson, Tuesday, October 16, 3:32 PMThe Washington Post   President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney arrived at the campus of Hofstra University on Tuesday afternoon and began final preparations for a second presidential debate that could once again shake up the race — with three weeks to go before Election Day.   [...]

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DNC faces cash shortfall on eve of 2012 election

Posted on October 10th, 2012

  The Democratic National Committee had more debt than cash on hand when the general election started in September, a troubling fact few people have noticed to this point in the campaign. We already knew that the Republican National Committee had more than 10 times as much cash as the DNC while the party’s were [...]

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Why Mitt Romney isn’t going to get blown out

Posted on September 27th, 2012

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake on September 27, 2012 at 6:30 am It’s easy amid a slew of swing state and national polling that shows President Obama opening up a high single-digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to conclude that we could be witnessing an electoral blowout in the making. But, there’s [...]

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The Case Against Reelection

Posted on August 10th, 2012

It’s time to hold Obama accountable for his “you didn’t build that” ideology. By Charles Krauthammer There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record, or you can run against his ideas. The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive [...]

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President Obama is running out of time on the economy

Posted on August 4th, 2012

    Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its July jobs report this morning — an assessment that didn’t exactly show considerable growth in the economy over the past month. And from a political perspective, that means one thing: President Obama is running out of time. Why? Because [...]

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Mitt Romney hopes overseas trip will show him as statesman

Posted on July 20th, 2012

By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz The Washington Post   Mitt Romney plans to depart next week for a visit to Britain, Israel and Poland, and the Republican presidential candidate hopes the trip will help him project the aura of a statesman and signal to voters back home that he would make a plausible commander [...]

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Why women are not the only ones to worry

Posted on March 27th, 2012

“The commonly underestimated value of knowledge and lack of personally sought-out information can be making your decision between life or death”. Breast Cancer Symptoms?? Why women are not the only ones to worry, breast cancer is a serious disease plaguing the world for all genders alike. male breast cancer symptoms What is Breast Cancer? Breast [...]

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Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted on January 14th, 2012

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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