If Republicans get to talk about President Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Roland Martin said on CNN Thursday, then Democrats get to talk about how Mitt Romney's Mormon church used to be racist, so there. Could there be a perfectly calibrated rulebook regulating the precise tit-for-tat between presidential campaigns? The Atlantic Wire has tried to create one.
What President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage didn't do: Allow a single new gay couple to get married. What it did do: Inspire waves of campaign donations, attack ads, and a symbolic but ultimately meaningless congressional vote.
Big liberal donors are meeting in Miami to strategize how to live up to a couple classic liberal cliches -- instead of trying to compete with the conservative Super PACs (and their ads) that helped Republicans retake the House in 2010 and helped Mitt Romney win the primary, they're going to pour their money into wholesome community-focused get-out-the-vote groups.
Ken Mehlman, who managed George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, is explicitly apologizing to the people hurt by the anti-gay marriage tone of the campaign. It's not the first time he's walked back his party's rhetoric.
Mitt Romney says he paid exactly what federal tax laws require, but it's hard not to notice he also checks all the boxes of a cartoon version of a Wall Street villain: Swiss bank accounts, funds in the Cayman Islands, and, The New York Times reports, original IPO shares in Goldman Sachs.
A lot of conservatives think Mitt Romney's record will offer a clear contrast with President Obama's, but what they don't dwell on is that the two men's personality flaws are almost exactly the same.
President Obama's reelection campaign manager presented five different ways for Obama to get 270 votes in the electoral college to show he's not facing such steep odds after all.
We don't want to wait three whole weeks to find out who's going to win the Iowa caucus — or the Republican nomination, for that matter — so historical analogies of primaries past are becoming a political pundit fad.
What candidate is witty and smart and experienced enough to expose as a lie the narrative that President Obama is an eloquent orator?
Mitt Romney wants to be the John Kerry of this year's Iowa caucuses, while President Obama wants to be the George W. Bush of the general election.
Perhaps Perry will win the nomination and prove too gun-slinging for the American people
Does that mean she's headed for a spectacular crash?
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