Month: February 2012

There are different strategies that presidential nominees pursue when selecting their running mates. One of the most popular is creating regional balance. For example, John F. Kennedy needed to reassure the racists in the...

(Sorry — I posted this and then deleted it, but it’s back by semi-popular demand.) The right is trying to flood the zone with the message EEK! EEK! OBAMA MADE GAS PRICES SKYROCKET! — here, for instance, is a...

    by Walter Brasch It’s the end of February, and one of my friends is still sporting a summer tan. I know it’s phony–and she knows I know it’s phony–but I have long ago stopped...

I remember back when Obama first came into office and he was trying to stop the free-fall in the economy, polling consistently showed that the auto bailout was the least popular of his emergency measures. Of course, the bailout...

At this point, pretty much every day brings a slew of new articles about how Republican insiders are “concerned about the tone.” Today we have a typical piece from Politico that frames it like this: In 2008, after...