By Augustine Faucher June 28, 2008 HISTORICALLY, ECONOMIC conditions have played an enormous role in presidential elections, even as other factors come into play. Economic downturns are bad news for the incumbent, while expansions tend to lead to reelection. Franklin D. Roosevelt unseated Herbert Hoover in the depth of the Great Depression in 1932. Boom [...]
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- Records Show Ron Paul Reimbursed Twice February 7, 2012Sourced from Roll Call by JONATHAN STRONG ROLL CALL STAFF FEB. 6, 2012, MIDNIGHT House Appears to Have Reimbursed Congressman for Trips That Were Also Paid for by Other Groups Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo Roll Call found evidence of Rep. Ron Paul being reimbursed twice for Congressional travel — once by taxpayers, once [...]James O'Rourke
- Elect Romney, Get War in Iran? February 6, 2012Sourced from alternet.org by MAX BLUMENTHAL • FEB. 5, 2012 Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, t hanks to Eliot Cohen. In 2005, a group of graduate students at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced and International [...]James O'Rourke
- Scrutinize President Obama’s record January 22, 2012When President Obama has a bad day, or more specifically, on days when the economic news has been bad, I get a slew of feedback from conservative readers that go like this: “See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and [...]James O'Rourke
- The Economy. It’s still Bush’s fault! January 18, 2012Sourced from Washington Post Byte Morning Fix A majority of Americans believe that former President George W. Bush is more responsible than President Obama for the current economic problems in the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fifty-four percent of respondents said that Bush was more to blame while 29 percent put [...]James O'Rourke
- Gingrich Plays the Race Card in S.C. Debated January 18, 2012Sourced from The Progressive By Matthew Rothschild, January 17, 2012 In a desperate effort to revive his floundering campaign, he’s flagrantly playing the race card. In the Sunday night debate in South Carolina, he repeated his canard against Barack Obama, calling him “the best food stamp president in American history” and claiming he wants to [...]James O'Rourke
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- Why we should support the VA December 17, 2011Sourced from progressive.org By Suzanne Gordon, December 14, 2011 Some Republican Presidential candidates love to say how much they support veterans, but they lose credibility when they go after the Veterans Administration. Michelle Bachman, for instance, proposes $4.5 billion dollars in cuts to the Veterans Administration. And Mitt Romney wants to kill the […]James O'Rourke
- Newt V. Mitt: What’s The Difference? December 3, 2011Sourced from Campaign for America’s Future By Bill Scher December 2, 2011 With one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, the debate among Republican primary voters for the moment is between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. It would be premature to conclude that it stays that way all month — the top two candidates [...]James O'Rourke
- Ezra Klein’s Wonkbook November 25, 2011Sourced from Washingtonpost.com Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Imagine if the Democrats offered Republicans a deficit deal that had more than $3 in tax increases for every $1 in spending cuts, assigned most of those spending cuts to the Pentagon, and didn’t take a dime from Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare beneficiaries. Republicans would laugh at [ […]James O'Rourke
- No Country For Young Children November 23, 2011Sourced from Campaign for America’s Future By Jeff Bryant November 22, 2011 – 9:58am ET When you call yourself a “historian,” you create the implication that you can speak authoritatively about, well, history. But last Friday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defied that common sense. Speaking at one of America’s […]James O'Rourke
