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Why Mitt Can't Escape RomneyCare
If former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hadn’t switched previous positions so dramatically on issues like abortion and same-sex unions, he’d probably have an easier time convincing voters that his newfound religion on health care reform is sincere. But as the Boston Herald’s Michael Graham points out, Romney’s got “more flip-flops on his record than a…
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Cain Was Able at the GOP's First Debate
On a day when President Barack Obama sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle with his visit to New York’s Ground Zero, when marquee names like Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney were no-shows, and even the Associated Press was boycotting over lack of access for its photographers, the first…
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Obama Kept His Promise on bin Laden
A few minutes into his monologue at Saturday evening’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers did an Osama bin Laden joke that had President Barack Obama laughing and smiling, seated on the dais in black tie and revealing nothing as U.S. special forces prepared an assault that left bin Laden dead…
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Why Barack Obama Is the Real Donald Trump
Donald Trump built his headline-grabbing, undeclared presidential run — and a double-digit lead in early GOP 2012 primary polling — on the theory that President Barack Obama isn’t actually American. If Trump plans to keep on running, now that a copy of the president’s long-form birth certificate is posted on whitehouse.gov and the Obama “Birther” conspiracies have…
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How Donald Trump Lost the Black Vote
There’s a great scene in Pulp Fiction where Vincent, John Travolta’s introspective contract killer, complains to his bathrobe-clad heroin dealer about an unknown scoundrel who “keyed” the pristine paint job on his vintage Chevy Malibu. The wistful coda to his woeful tale is this: “It’d been worth him doing it just so I could’ve caught…
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How Trump Lost The Black Vote
David Swerdlick is an associate editor at The Root. Follow him on Twitter.
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Why Sharpton Was Right About Obama
Sunday’s heated set-to between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Dr. Cornel West wasn’t just an intramural pissing contest — although it was that, too — between two of the biggest names in black America. Their MSNBC exchange stood in for the larger debate within the Obama coalition between the “professional left” — unhappy with Obama’s…
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Why Donald Trump Went Birther
Back in 2008, Shelby Steele — author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Barack Obama and Why He Can’t Win — argued that then-Sen. Barack Obama’s appeal to voters was that his historic election transcended the issues of the day. His presidential campaign was “the stuff of a far higher drama than…
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Why No One Likes Obama's Libya War
With all the flak Obama was taking a week ago for his go-slow approach on Libya — and all the phony bouquets for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the crisis — you might have been tempted to think that she was the one who had green-lighted missile strikes on Muammar Qaddafi, and Obama…
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How Haley Barbour Can Say No
It’s hard to imagine that someone who was practically announcing his 2012 White House bid on Fox News Sunday last weekend wouldn’t take the easy out on a hot-button issue when it’s sitting right there for him, but so far, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour won’t do it. In the latest race-relations dustup over Barbour’s unwillingness…
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