Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Presidential Pantomime

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Kevin Kosar at AEI: Shortly before he left office, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment was now part of the Const...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Moonshot

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President Obama has compared the search for a cancer cure to the moon shot. PZ Myers writes at ScienceBlogs: Everyone admires John F. Ke...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Obama and the Crusades

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Evan Simon writes at ABC: After President Obama’s remarks comparing ISIS militants to medieval Christian crusaders ignited a firestorm of ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

The Immigration Action and a Health Care Case

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At The Los Angeles Times , David G. Savage writes of the connection between the president's executive action on immigration and the upc...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Limiting Access to Information

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At AP, Erin Madigan White reports on AP Washington Bureau Chief’s list of 8 ways in which the administration is limiting access to informati...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

New York Times Flip-Flops on States' Rights

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On May 29, 2011, The New York Times denounced states' rights. States’ rights has been a politically charged concept for even longer. ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

War Powers and Chad

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The president has sent this letter to the House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), president pro tem of the Senat...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Sequestration Fizzle

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The Washington Post reports: Before “ sequestration ” took effect, the Obama administration issued specific — and alarming — predictions ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Secession?

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Secession? In 2004, after President Bush won 51% of the vote, a small number of disgruntled progressives  gave some fleeting thought to se...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Privacy and Campaign Technology

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Previous posts have discussed campaign technology . As the New York Times reports, the Romney and Obama campaigns insist that they respe...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Racial Polarization and the Election

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At National Journal , Ronald Brownstein runs the numbers on race and the presidential vote: For President Obama, the winning formula can ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

A Forecast of Romney Victory

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One respected forecasting model predicts that President Obama will win a very narrow majority in the popular vote.  Another, however, pred...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Digital Campaign

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Previous posts have examined the role of technology in the presidential race .  The Pew Research Center's Project on Excellence in Jou...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

French Learn Voter Mobilization from Americans

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At Slate , Sasha Issenberg writes about how French operatives learned voter mobilization from the Obama campaign. The three young men ...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Contributions and Access

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Campaign contributions do not necessarily buy policy decisions, but they do help contributors gain access to polilcymakers.  At The New York...
Monday, March 12, 2012

No Silver Bullet

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Like most people, presidents have favorite phrases.  One of President Obama's is "silver bullet."   In a Monday interview with...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Obama, Catholics, and Contraception

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Our chapter on civic culture lays out the breadth and depth of religious influence on American life. Our chapters on parties and campaign...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Controversial Recess Appointments

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Our chapter on the presidency describes the chief executive's power to make recess appointments , that is, to fill positions temporaril...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Youth Opinion

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A release from Harvard's Institute of Politics : A new national poll of America’s 18 to 29 year olds by Harvard’s Institute of Polit...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Obama and TR

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Presidents often invoke their predecessors, as President Obama will do today. AP reports : President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit u...