WBUR political commentator Todd Domke calls Democratic candidate for Senate Marisa DeFranco “a more genuine populist than Warren — or Brown, for that matter — but it’s probably arguable,” and says she deserves respect, if not a second look by Democratic primary voters and the news media.
Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry is not germane to her candidacy or the election, says WBUR political commentator Dan Payne. Ultimately a Senate race this big will be decided on more weighty matters than bloodlines.
Campaign slogans may seem simple-minded, but they can reveal a campaign strategy. Barack Obama’s new slogan is “Forward.” Mitt Romney’s slogan is “Believe in America.”
BOSTON — Warren’s campaign has suffered from small caliber thinking. She should be employing her financial know-how, not constantly reminding us of her humble roots.
BOSTON — In Ohio Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden told the story of how workers at a steel plant lost their jobs when Bain took over.
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With the latest campaign dollar totals officially on the FEC books, at least one thing is certain: President Obama will not have the huge spending advantage this November that he did four years ago. What is less certain: whether some big political donors can remain anonymous.
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It increasingly looks like GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his passionate loyalists are consolidating clout in state party organizations with an eye toward 2016. They appear to be laying the groundwork for a future presidential run by the congressman's son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)
Max Nutting, a journalist who writes for the MarketWatch website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal looked at the data and found that rhetoric and reality don't quite match up. Nutting found that, contrary to repeated allegations from the president's political foes, including Mitt Romney that Obama has been on a federal spending tear, he actually hasn't.
(Rick Bowmer / AP)
President Obama and his expected Republican challenger are tied on the all-important question of who can best deal with the ailing economy, according to a poll released Tuesday.
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Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. can't agree on what's behind the eurozone's troubles. Now it looks like the Europeans may try the approach President Obama has advocated: a commitment to long-term fiscal discipline while pursuing growth in the short term.
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With the latest campaign dollar totals officially on the FEC books, at least one thing is certain: President Obama will not have the huge spending advantage this November that he did four years ago. What is less certain: whether some big political donors can remain anonymous.
(Charles Dharapak / AP)
It increasingly looks like GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his passionate loyalists are consolidating clout in state party organizations with an eye toward 2016. They appear to be laying the groundwork for a future presidential run by the congressman's son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)
Max Nutting, a journalist who writes for the MarketWatch website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal looked at the data and found that rhetoric and reality don't quite match up. Nutting found that, contrary to repeated allegations from the president's political foes, including Mitt Romney that Obama has been on a federal spending tear, he actually hasn't.
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For years, the Tea Party has held individualism up as the great American value. But columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. says that Americans historically have prized communitarianism just as much. In Our Divided Political Heart, Dionne argues that America is at its best when it balances the two.
Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel tell us about the recent spawn of superPACs — thanks mostly to late-night TV host Stephen Colbert.
In 2004, then-candidate Barack Obama campaigned on a message of hope and gained overwhelming support from young voters. In an op-ed in the Los Angles Times, Neal Gabler writes that many of those young voters are disappointed with his tenure, and they've turned to "DIY politics" instead.
(Rick Bowmer / AP)
President Obama and his expected Republican challenger are tied on the all-important question of who can best deal with the ailing economy, according to a poll released Tuesday.
President Obama is back in Washington after a long weekend of international diplomacy. First there was the G8 summit at Camp David and then the NATO summit in Chicago. The Windy City is also home to the president's re-election headquarters, and at news conference Monday, he was forced to defend his campaign attacks on Republican rival Mitt Romney.
The Obama campaign continues its attack on Mitt Romney's time at the private-equity firm Bain Capital. Over the weekend, Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker seemed to veer off the campaign's message. Later, Booker tempered his remarks in a YouTube video. But it didn't take long for the Romney campaign to seize on Booker's comments.
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After their first meeting in 1989, legendary law professor Laurence Tribe was so impressed with the skinny first-year law student in jeans, a sweatshirt and an afro, that he made a special notation on his calendar. The student, Barack Obama, went on to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Defending a campaign ad, Obama said Mitt Romney's work at a private equity firm is fair game.
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It's a classic campaign chain of events: a rising star (in this case Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker) seems to cross his party's leader, and then says he was misunderstood. Meanwhile, the opposition uses his words to its advantage.
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Twenty years before President Obama graduated from Harvard Law School, rival Mitt Romney earned a joint degree from Harvard's law and business schools. Amid the '70s counterculture movement, Romney stood out as more of a Boy Scout type, classmates recall. But they say he was also a loyal friend.
In recent years, critics have questioned the need for a U.S.-European alliance, originally formed to confront the Soviet Union. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright argues the president and NATO leaders must reaffirm the importance of their union to U.S. security.
The G8 Summit was dominated by talks on how to handle the latest financial setback in Europe. President Obama stood at the center of those talks, knowing that what Europe decides could have a lasting impact on the U.S. economy and his own political future. Host Michel Martin speaks with The Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy.
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Ron Paul knows he's not going to be the Republican nominee for president this year. Mitt Romney has it all but locked up. But Paul's supporters are flooding state conventions, getting elected as convention delegates ... and preparing for life after 2012.
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The sophistication of congressional speech-making is on the decline, according to the open government group the Sunlight Foundation. Since 2005, the average grade level at which members of Congress speak has fallen by almost a full grade.
Those hoping to sway the presidential election with anonymous donations to nonprofit political groups could find their names made public this fall after a pair of court rulings backed public disclosure. There are, however, ways to work around that.
WBUR political commentator Todd Domke calls Democratic candidate for Senate Marisa DeFranco “a more genuine populist than Warren — or Brown, for that matter — but it’s probably arguable,” and says she deserves respect, if not a second look by Democratic primary voters and the news media.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts gaming commissioner says the state isn’t necessarily destined for three casinos and a slots parlor, and a Massachusetts economist says the state is not being realistic in thinking that it can support three major resort casinos.
Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry is not germane to her candidacy or the election, says WBUR political commentator Dan Payne. Ultimately a Senate race this big will be decided on more weighty matters than bloodlines.
Campaign slogans may seem simple-minded, but they can reveal a campaign strategy. Barack Obama’s new slogan is “Forward.” Mitt Romney’s slogan is “Believe in America.”
Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge.
Prosecutors said the three were not only planning to attack Obama’s campaign headquarters, but also Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home and other targets during this weekend’s NATO summit.
BOSTON — A do-it-yourself scorecard for determining who will win in 2012. While it is not scientific, it’s a way to review many of the factors that will affect the outcome.
BOSTON — In a near unanimous vote the state Senate on Thursday night passed a major health care cost control bill that legislators estimate will save $150 billion over the next 15 years.
BOSTON — The bill, which passed 35-2, aims to reduce projected health care costs in the state by $150 billion over the next 15 years.
BOSTON — Warren’s campaign has suffered from small caliber thinking. She should be employing her financial know-how, not constantly reminding us of her humble roots.
BOSTON — In Ohio Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden told the story of how workers at a steel plant lost their jobs when Bain took over.
BOSTON — Budget-writers in the state Senate are proposing to spend more on local aid than the funding level approved by the House in April.
The Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday began debating a bill that sets an ambitious goal of reducing projected health care costs in the state by $150 billion over the next 15 years.
The significance of Warren claiming to be 1/32 Cherokee is that it raised as many questions about her Senate campaign as about her personally.
BOSTON — The bill includes a new $50 million innovation investment fund to support research and development at universities and research centers where House leaders say the state’s economic strengths lie.
BOSTON — Political analyst Dan Payne says Obama could not have believed that his position on gay marriage would gain him votes in tossup states.
LYNCHBURG, Va. — During a commencement speech at a conservative Christian university, Romney called marriage an “enduring” institution.
THE STATE HOUSE — Sen. Michael Knapik rose on the Senate floor Thursday to decry a policy he deemed so “downright un-American” that it had to be reversed: A ban on bake sales.
How will the President’s announcement of support for gay marriage help or hurt his reelection prospects in New Hampshire and beyond this fall?
