Despite two weeks of widespread political coverage in which both parties made an effort to reach out to Latino voters, enthusiasm about November is still very much in question. … Still, President Barack Obama continues to maintain a large lead among Latinos following the DNC Convention with 66% support to […] Read more »
The Ryan Sinkhole
Unlike the Republican platform, which has mostly been ignored outside of the abortion issue, the Paul Ryan budget is the core document of the 2012 campaign. … What people have not been talking about enough is that the Ryan budget contains an $897 billion sinkhole: massive but unexplained cuts in […] Read more »
Obama’s Shaky Lead in Post-Convention Home Stretch
U.S. presidential elections, like basketball or football games, are played in quarters; the Democrats just won the third, the summer, giving President Barack Obama a small, not decisive, advantage going into the final stretch. [cont.] Al Hunt, Bloomberg Read more »
Conventions May Put Obama in Front-Runner’s Position
On Friday, we began to see reasonably clear signs that President Obama would receive some kind of bounce in the polls from the Democratic convention. Mr. Obama had another strong day in the polls on Saturday, making further gains in each of four national tracking polls. The question now is […] Read more »
Fearing the Clinton Factor
Of all the surrogates, themes and attacks rolled out by the Democrats in Charlotte last week, the Romney campaign flashed fear over just one. His name is Bill Clinton. … Polls show the former president could prove an unusually potent asset for President Barack Obama’s reelection bid, particularly in swing […] Read more »
Could foreign policy actually affect the 2012 presidential election?
… [E]very head-to-head poll has given Barack Obama a decided advantage on foreign policy and national security. Every one. The thing is, I’ve stipulated over and over that Americans don’t care all that much about foreign policy. So one has to wonder whether this really matters. It’s an election about […] Read more »