Archive for the ‘election’ Category
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Rules Are Made to Be Broken
Posted on January 16, 2013
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case...
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Getting It Good And Hard
Posted on November 15, 2012
It was H.L. Mencken who said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Plenty of people got...
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Forward?
Posted on November 12, 2012
In retrospect, Forward was a brilliant campaign motto. Forward for the President implied backward for his opponent. And, unfortunately for the Republicans, they fell into the archetype all too easily....
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Recap
Posted on November 8, 2012
Barack Obama had 9 million less votes in this election than last. Had Mitt Romney the same number of votes as John McCain in Ohio, he would have won. You...
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The House Party
Posted on November 7, 2012
The Republican Party is now almost an exclusively a creature of the House of Representatives. Perhaps that is why Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate. From...
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