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e’s tall, dark, and handsome. It doesn’t hurt that he croons rhythm and blues and can shake it up on the dance floor. President Obama is the ultimate ladies’ man, but not because of his swagger or looks. His popularity among women boils down to politics. Part of his appeal to women is simply inherited, for decades women have preferred Democratic candidates. The other part of his female … [Read more...]
When a Serious Issue Doesn’t Make the Top Seven Issues List of a Sitting President Seeking Re-Electioneaders: if you can and if you care to, please point your browser to President Obama’s official re-election website. We’ll get back to that site, momentarily.Now, did you catch the first few minutes of The Rachel Maddow Show on February 29th, the day after the Michigan and … [Read more...]
ith an empty suit as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, I know you can feel the magic in the air. Now the speculation on who will fill the vice presidential slot has begun. Predictably, a number of the prospective candidates are black and brown, at least nominally.It is safe to say that Mitt Romney - the whitest man ever, as Bill Maher described him - will make some so-called bold move … [Read more...]
Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People hat are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people.It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help itself.Start with Hispanic voters, whose electoral heft keeps growing as they … [Read more...]
ccording to the U.S. media, the real story in the first round of the French election was the surprising strength of the “far-right” and “extremist” candidate Marine Le Pen. Le Pen promoted anti-immigration and law-and-order themes, and questioned France’s involvement in the European Union.Yet when Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney promoted the “self-deportation” of … [Read more...]
he Michael Steele 2006 Senatorial campaign in Maryland posed the question front and center of what does one mean by “Black Politics?” Does “Black politics” mean the politics of the mass of Black people or does it mean the politics of people who happen to be Black? In posing the question that way I am not trying to be amusing, but rather pointing to a matter, or perhaps quandary that … [Read more...]
ell, here's a condundrum for Republicans: yet another "woman problem". See, when it comes to mothers working outside the home rather than inside the home, they believe women -- such as Ann Romney -- have a god-given right to be at home with children, because, you know, it's darn hard work, real work, work as valid as anything done in the work force.They all said it, remember, when Democratic … [Read more...]
illary Clinton holds the record for being named Gallup’s most admired woman, 16 years to be exact. Her favorability ratings among the general population are in the mid-sixties and among Democrats she has an 86 percent favorability score. The question now is what is she going to do with this stockpile of good feeling?She has not always been the most popular or favored political figure whether … [Read more...]
e progressives have a dream: to elect leaders who inspire and mobilize men and women, throughout America and around the world, to realize the great aspirations of the two historical waves of our time: the Female Century and the Populist Century.My suggestion is this: Reelect Barack Obama in 2012 and draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 to achieve an era of reform and realignment that will powerfully … [Read more...]
est defense, good offense: The Romney camp does not disappoint.This really isn't a long, or complicated, story: Once upon a time, Ann and Mitt Romney put their Irish Setter, Seamus, in a cage, which was then strapped to the roof of their family car for a long car trip. Ann Romney claims it was less cruel than leaving him in a kennel.Of course, given their vast wealth, it would seem … [Read more...]
hat is what John Burton, Chair of the California Democratic Party, told the gathered delegates (including me) at the annual party convention recently in San Diego. And so…I will.The Republican Party today is more extreme that it has been at any time since records were first kept in 1879, when Republican Rutherford Hayes (who stole the 1876 Presidential election in even more outrageous … [Read more...]
he political column in “Desfiladero-The Cliff” in today's La Jornada, Mexico's premier progressive national newspaper, is revealing and highly educational because it points to a big media manipulation of the electoral process in Mexico.For months now, the seven major private polling companies, all linked to big business and major media networks, have placed Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI … [Read more...]
itt: it was a long hard slog but we did it, now comes the run to the middle. You’ve got a lot of ground to make up after out-righting the right but no steeper will your climb be than with the Latino electorate. Moving forward here’s our three-pronged Latino action plan – hold the line with the Cuban vote, throw in the towel with the Latino Democratic vote, and fire up the Republican … [Read more...]
ith Mitt Romney's conservative opponents destroyed by his lavishly financed onslaught of personal attacks against them, the great general-election question about the man called a weathervane by some, and the “Etch a Sketch” candidate by others, is this: When will Mitt Romney next betray the right? When will he weathervane toward women, pander to Hispanics, Etch a Sketch toward teachers, … [Read more...]
ne thing about the current campaign has been clear and consistent for months: opinion about Obama is sharply and evenly divided, with only a handful of voters who have no opinion. Nearly half the population seems to have a durable negative view of the President. This certainly suggests that the election will be close.And many polls confirm this when we look at a hypothetical matchup (“If … [Read more...]
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