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Mitt Romney Won by the Skin of His Teeth
American Prospect blogger Jamelle Bouie says that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s incredibly ugly victory on Super Tuesday means that his party still isn’t buying what he’s selling. That means he still has a long row to hoe. Mitt Romney’s Super Tuesday wasn’t a disaster, but you’d be hard-pressed to call it good, either. The…
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Soft Bigotry, Meet Low Expectations
Weighing in on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s primary win on Tuesday in his home state of Michigan, American Prospect blogger Jamelle Bouie says that it stands as a big victory because everyone anticipated the opposite. The only way Michigan could not have hurt Mitt Romney’s bid for the GOP nomination was if he surpassed…
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Obama and the 'Independent' Voter
In a blog entry at the American Prospect, Jamelle Bouie breaks down the varying degrees of independent voters, saying that most members of the electorate lean Democratic or Republican. But in the middle are those he describes as “weak partisan leaners.” He discusses how their votes will shake out in 2012 for President Barack Obama,…
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Smooth Sailing for Mitt Romney
In a blog entry at the American Prospect, Jamelle Bouie writes that Mitt Romney stayed on course to win the GOP presidential nomination by maintaining his cool and staving off his opponents’ questions during Monday night’s debate in South Carolina. The conservative candidates, each ostensibly vying to be the race’s alternative to Romney, backed off…
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Mitt Romney the Union Buster
In a blog entry at the American Prospect, Jamelle Bouie writes that Mitt Romney’s latest South Carolina ad highlights his defense of the state’s “right to work” law, which makes it difficult for unions to organize. In that vein, he plans to establish himself as a union buster, a man conservatives can trust. One of…
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Everything Is Coming Up Romney
Even with the prominence of candidates like Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney has always been the favorite for the nomination, Jamelle Bouie writes in a blog entry at the American Prospect. At this point in the game, with less than week before the caucuses, you can safely turn to polls of Iowa Republicans…
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George H.W. Bush Endorses Mitt Romney
The fact that former President George H.W. Bush has endorsed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney should come as no surprise because both represent the status quo, Jamelle Bouie writes in a blog entry at American Prospect. What would be surprising is an endorsement from the younger Bush, who remains unpopular. … The right-wing is ascendant…
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Ron Paul's Threat to Newt Gingrich
Iowa is a must-win for GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Jamelle Bouie writes in a blog entry at the American Prospect, which is why Ron Paul’s surge in the latest polls is so dangerous. Bouie looks at how the GOP race is shaping up. With his vast trail of scandals and long list of enemies,…
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Is the Klan the Tea Party's Distant Cousin?
In a blog entry at the Nation, Jamelle Bouie checks in on the debate surrounding historian Kevin Boyle’s New York Times reviews of two books on the Ku Klux Klan. Contrary to claims by critics, Bouie argues that Boyle doesn’t call Tea Partiers Klansmen; he merely states that they are motivated by the same reactionary…
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