Published: PolicyMic (October 11, 2012)
Editor’s Note: This represents instant analysis of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author’s thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here.
Here are my first impressions about the debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan on Thursday evening:
1) The Big Points
– Biden’s message in this debate can be summed up in two phrases: “That’s a bunch of malarkey” and “Facts matter.”
Published: PolicyMic (October 11, 2012)
Some opening thoughts on the upcoming vice presidential debate:
– Just as Mitt Romney benefited from low expectations in the first presidential debate, so too will Joe Biden likely walk away as the declared “victor” in this contest by simple virtue of being the perceived underdog.
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012)
Here is my last minute prediction on the first Obama-Romney debate:
I think Mitt Romney is going to win it. This has nothing to do with the forensic skills of either Romney or Obama, and everything to do with the media.
Historically speaking, they tend to try to make political stories as “exciting” as possible, and as such, usually tend to award “victory” to whichever participant in a debate was perceived as the “underdog” going into it.
Published: PolicyMic (September 26, 2012)
Up until now, debate on the political impact of Mitt Romney’s “47%” comments has been entirely speculative. That is no longer the case.
According to recently released New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac surveys — the first major polls to be conducted right after the emergence of the controversial video — Romney has suffered enormous setbacks in key swing states.
Published: PolicyMic (September 23, 2012)
Conventional political wisdom states that, to become president, you must first acquire your party’s nomination by pandering to its radical base. After that, you win the general election by moving back to the ideological center. Keep that axiom in mind as you’re reading this editorial.
Back in February, Mitt Romney earned the derision of political observers when he tried to woo attendees at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference by referring to himself as “severely conservative.”
Published: PolicyMic (September 18, 2012)
Secret video recordings of comments made by Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser are so appalling that it’s hard to figure out where to even begin analyzing them. I guess the best way is to look at the three main parts.
First there is the Republican presidential nominee’s declaration that 47% of the American people will vote for Barack Obama no matter what because they are “dependent on government” and believe, “that they are victims … that government has the responsibility to care for them … that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.”