
By Karl Rove July 10, 2010 During the last week, President Barack Obama doubled down on a losing political bet, further cementing the Democratic Party’s reputation as the champion of bigger deficits, higher spending and more government. He did as just as the public is crying out for lower deficits, less spending and less government. [...]
July 10, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove June 27, 2010 Democrats are acknowledging they’ll lose ground in the midterms. The only question is how much. Today, the evidence points to quite a lot. The most important indicator is the president’s job approval. In the Real Clear Politics average of the last two weeks’ polls, President Obama has a 48% [...]
June 27, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove June 12, 2010 When Barack Obama announced he was running for president in February 2007, Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political Report wrote “Obama’s history of voting ‘present’” in Springfield, Ill.—even on some of the most controversial and politically explosive issues . . . raises questions . . . Voting ‘present’ is [...]
June 12, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove June 5, 2010 White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod argued earlier this year that health-care reform would become more popular after it passed, boosting Democrats in the midterm elections. “We have to go out and sell it,” he told the National Journal, adding in an interview in Newsweek that “people [will] see [...]
June 5, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove May 23, 2010 The temptation for politicians and political analysts is to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from election results. But most election outcomes defy being reduced to a single cause. Campaigns are a complicated mix of issues, personalities and impressions. Voters settle on a candidate after using an algorithm that varies from [...]
May 23, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove May 2, 2010 President Barack Obama’s speech last week at New York Cooper’s Union showcased two unattractive verbal leitmotifs. The first was the president’s reliance on straw-man arguments. America, he said, need not “choose between two extremes . . . markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets [...]
May 2, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove Feb. 5, 2010 Last Friday, President Obama met with House Republicans in Baltimore. He took questions, parried criticisms, and allowed all of it to be put on television. Framed as an opportunity for the president to hear from the other side, Mr. Obama’s real aim was to portray Republicans as obstructionist and [...]
February 5, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove Jan. 31, 2010 It was a tense moment in the West Wing. Less than a year into a new president’s term, a Senate seat was slipping to the opposition and taking with it the balance of power in the upper chamber. The president’s agenda was suddenly at risk. If this sounds like [...]
January 31, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove Jan. 24, 2010 ‘If Massachusetts puts Brown in, it’s a message of ‘that’s enough.’ Let’s stop the giveaways and let’s get jobs going.” Marlene Connolly is a 73-year-old Massachusetts Democrat who cast her first vote for a Republican in supporting Scott Brown. Her quote and story comes to us via the New [...]
January 24, 2010 | Posted in
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By Karl Rove Nov. 29, 2009 After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess. Eureka! Well, almost. What seems [...]
November 29, 2009 | Posted in
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