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Campaign 2012
campaign 2012
Aug. 11, 2012
Mitt Romney Picks Slightly Boring But Handsome White Guy Paul Ryan
A conservative groundswell gets results.
By
Adam Pasick
the national interest
Aug. 10, 2012
Was Harry Reid Right?
Quite possibly.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 10, 2012
Romney May Have No Choice But to Pick Paul Ryan [Updated]
Literally!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 9, 2012
Mitt Romney: Not a Murderer
A ringing defense!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 9, 2012
What Does Romney ‘Want’? Tax Wonks Don’t Know.
All they know is what he proposes.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 8, 2012
Romney Anti-Tax-Wonk Jihad Continues
Seven days out from The Study That Changed Everything, conservatives get even more angry and less math-y.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 8, 2012
Romney: Sick People May Live, If They Move to Massachusetts
Just because he doesn’t
care
doesn’t mean he doesn’t
understand
.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 8, 2012
Romney’s Veep Pick and the 1980 Reagan Fantasy
Does Romney buy his own bullshit? The acid test approaches.
By
Jonathan Chait
campaign 2012
Aug. 8, 2012
Bill Clinton Does Not Think Obama Is ‘Gutting’ Welfare Reform
The former president issued a statement criticizing Romney’s latest attack ad.
By
Caroline Bankoff
the national interest
Aug. 7, 2012
Class War and Romney’s Welfare Counterattack
A gamble that Americans fear the poor more than the rich.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 7, 2012
Romney Tax Cut Defenders Get Dada
In which we explain the meaning of the argumentative tactic “even if … “
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 6, 2012
Romney’s Military-Vote-Suppression Smear
Wait, did the GOP just admit that voting is a fundamental right?
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 6, 2012
This Video Proves Romney Knows His Whole Campaign Is a Lie
Poppycock!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 3, 2012
Why Washington Accepts Mass Unemployment
Signposts from the Big Shrug.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2012
Obama Has Had a Good Month [Updated]
Straws float in the wind …
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2012
Romney Decides to Get on Top of This Bain Story
No hurry!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 30, 2012
Newsweek
Puts Romney on Latest and Possibly Last ‘Wimp Factor’ Cover
It’s a formula, but it works. Or it did in 1987, anyway.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2012
Race and ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ Part 2
No, I didn’t call Romney racist!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2012
Romney: Obama Abandoning Bush Agenda Caused Arab Spring
George W. Bush warned us of this, amirite?
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2012
Mitt Romney, Underminer
Defining a subgenre of Romneygaffe.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2012
The Real Reason ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Works
It’s not the lying part.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 26, 2012
Mitt: My Plan Differs From Bush’s Because … Uh
Sorry, elevator door is closing!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 24, 2012
Is Obama Worried About His Own Popularity Now?
He’s suddenly looking winsome and reassuring again. Hmm …
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 24, 2012
Romney Blames Obama for Paying GOP Ransom
I blame him, too!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 24, 2012
Mitt Still Against Apologies Other Than to Him
Oh, President Romney accidentally destroyed New Zealand? Too bad!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 20, 2012
How ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Violated Conservative P.C.
A gaffe opens a sociological window into the political culture.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 19, 2012
Obama: Romney Ends Medicare As We Know It
The real attack of the campaign begins.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 18, 2012
The ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Lie and the Debate Beneath It
What did Obama really mean when he said that? Could it be … socialism?
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 18, 2012
Mitt Romney Gets Angry
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Though Obama probably does.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 18, 2012
Has ‘Attacking Success’ Made Us Poor?
Romney escapes deep into right-wing fantasy.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 17, 2012
Romney Surrogate Calls Obama Un-American Stoner [Updated]
Is it possible to construct a sentence referencing Indonesia, Hawaii, marijuana, Chicago, and community organizing? It is!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 17, 2012
Why Obama Runs on Taxing the Rich
Republicans have chained themselves to a wildly unpopular position.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 16, 2012
Republicans Advise Mitt: Attack! Defend!
Something! There’s a lot of brilliant free campaign advice out there.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 13, 2012
Life Imitates
The Simpsons
Obama even pardoned white-collar criminal Mitt Romney. Romney for president.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 13, 2012
What’s True and False in Obama’s Bain Attacks [Updated]
A nonsense argument within a nonsense argument.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 12, 2012
What Romney Means by ‘Free Stuff’
He doesn’t mean “stuff you stole.”
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 12, 2012
Reid: Mitt Couldn’t Be Confirmed As Dog Catcher
Sadly true. It would be our loss.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 12, 2012
Romney: You Lie! Report: No, YOU Lie!
In election years, they should rename this month “You-lie.”
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 10, 2012
Suppression vs. Turnout, the 2012 War
The parties fight to get minorities to the polls, or keep them away.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 9, 2012
Obama Eats the Rich for Fun and Profit [Updated]
A new initiative that will not go over well with the Romney Hamptons set.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 6, 2012
Obama: I Love Romneycare!
That makes one of the two candidates.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 6, 2012
How Obama’s Allies Are Defining Romney
A rich guy who only cares about other rich guys because he’s rich.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 5, 2012
Hey, Republicans, Leave Mitt
Aloooone
He’s running for office, for Pete’s sake!
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 28, 2012
The Election Is Now a Fight Over Obamacare
To the death! (In some cases, quite literally.)
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 27, 2012
Michelle Obama, Ann Romney Forced to Share Recipes
Either you bake your own cookies or you hate America.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 26, 2012
Obama’s Two-Stage Attack on Romney
Phase One: Bain.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 21, 2012
Congress Joins List of Things Romney Thinks Don’t Exist
Perhaps some “studies” proving it’s a myth would be in order. Get cracking, right-wing think tanks.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 19, 2012
Palin Put Romney Off Women for Good
Women had their chance. They blew it.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 19, 2012
Romney: I Must Not Football With Immigration
We should have listened more closely to what Rick Perry was telling us.
By
Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 19, 2012
Lanny Davis, Michael Steele Remain Misunderstood
Davis and Steele, speaking to
U.S. News
, have deigned to offer a “response” to the criticisms. And by “response,” I mean “confirmation.”
By
Jonathan Chait
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