Jimmy Carter
This Should Be Obama’s Answer to ‘Are You Better Off?’
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No, the Election Isn't Just a Referendum on Obama
In his TNR column last week, my esteemed colleague and mentor William Galston expressed one of the more regularly repeated convictions about presidential politics: Reelection campaigns are a referendum on the incumbent. As he wrote: READ MORE >>
The Art of the Comeback: The Case For Newt's Continued Campaign
The irresistible human impulse is to find meaning amid the chaos of the cosmos. But some external events defy rational categorization. So it was with Thursday afternoon as Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney—an event so bizarre that the tight-lipped Romney was forced to admit, “There are some things you can’t imagine in life. And this is one of them.” READ MORE >>
One Year Later: The Failure of the Arab Spring
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The Collector
2012 Will Be a Referendum on Obama, Whether He Likes It or Not
By all accounts, the Obama campaign wants to avoid having the 2012 election turn into a referendum on the president’s first term, hoping instead to turn it into a choice between the two major parties’ candidates and visions for the country’s future. But if history is any guide, that will be an uphill battle. READ MORE >>
