What Romney Wants You (and Ohio) to Forget About the GM Rescue
Monday night’s debate between President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney was about foreign policy. But one of the sharpest exchanges was over President Obama’s rescue of General Motors and Chrysler—and whether Romney had opposed it. Romney said he had not. That’s a distortion, at best, or a flat-out lie, at worst. It’s impossible to know for sure because Romney has made different and, at times, contradictory statements about the issue. READ MORE >>
The conventional wisdom about Tuesday’s debate has taken shape. President Obama performed better than Mitt Romney, maybe even a lot better. But he failed to describe a governing vision for the future. This has been a persistent weakness of his campaign, the argument goes, and it’s becoming a huge liability. READ MORE >>
Romney’s Most Radical Proposal
Blue States vs. Red States: The Sources and Resources I Used
When you’re writing a book or academic paper, giving credit is easy: You cite your sources with endnotes and a bibliography. It’s not so easy when you’re writing an piece of journalism. Conventions vary, from genre to genre and from publication to publication. My own practice, similar to that of many others, is to cite sources that provided specific pieces of information—and, when possible, to quote by name anybody who spent a lot of time helping me to understand an issue. READ MORE >>
Obama’s Very Good Night—In Four Key Moments
Tonight President Obama made the case for his reelection. And he made it awfully well—better, certainly, than he did in Denver two weeks ago and better, perhaps, than he has at anytime in the last few months. READ MORE >>
Obama: Beware These Talking Heads
Romney Reminds Us How Little He Understands the Rest of America
Mitt Romney has caught some grief for comments he made about health care last week. It seems to me he deserves a lot more. READ MORE >>
Biden Gave Democrats The Show They Wanted—and Needed
Tonight Democrats got the show they wanted—and President Obama may have gotten the boost he needed. READ MORE >>
Please Ask Ryan About This Tonight
Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network has noticed something interesting. He went through Mitt Romney’s campaign website to see what tax loopholes Romney plans to close. He couldn't find references to a single one—not on the issue page that summarizes his plan for tax reform and not on the more detailed fifteen-page summary available via hyperlink. The omission tells us a lot. As you probably know by now, Romney has proposed a tax cut that would cost about $5 trillion in lost revenue. Romney says he’ll offset the cut by closing loopholes, in a way that would neither increase the deficit nor raise taxes on the middle class. But he won't specify which loopholes, perhaps because, according to multiple independent analyses, the math couldn't plausibly work as he says it would. You may have heard that changed last week, because of an interview that Romney gave to a Colorado television station. That's incorrect. READ MORE >>
