Both political parties agree that the country’s 21.3 million registered Latino voters could make a crucial difference in this year’s presidential election. Yet in a race defined by massive spending on television ads, fast-response Internet videos and sophisticated social media efforts, both President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney have fallen […] Read more »
Political Perceptions: Romney’s Clintonesque Challenge
Can Mitt Romney pull a Bill Clinton? Can he go from generally disliked to well liked, all in a few months? His political fate may hinge on it. [cont.] Neil King Jr., Wall Street Journal Read more »
Obama’s victory is now his challenge
… Although Americans like many of the Affordable Care Act’s individual pieces, polls show that most voters are understandably skeptical that the law will do everything Obama has promised — improve medical care, slow the growth of costs and cut the federal deficit all at the same time. Capitalizing on […] Read more »
The vision thing: The 2012 campaign’s missing ingredient
… Americans may yet elect Romney, but it won’t be because they really buy what he’s selling. Voters aren’t hearing a clear message from Obama either. … So why hasn’t either candidate offered a clear vision that resonates with the American people? [cont.] Drew Westen, Emory U. Read more »
For Obama, a Signature Issue That the Public Never Embraced Looms Large
… Mr. Obama’s team holds out hope that with the validation of the court ruling, the health care law will generate more popular support as it is phased in through 2014. … Some supporters have argued that other social programs in the past were controversial at first before becoming embedded […] Read more »
Romney-Obama race dividing U.S. along fault lines
Increasingly, the 2012 presidential election appears to be dividing along a pair of fault-lines. The first is demographic: old versus new America. … The other divide of surpassing importance in this year’s presidential election is geographic: it’s the gulf between a relative handful of “battleground” states, which are already getting […] Read more »