Doug Schoen

Wishful Thinking for a Hillary Clinton Presidency Is Based On Faulty Premises

Asher Smith | Posted 01.23.2012

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Asher Smith

Much of the pining for Hillary Clinton seems to be premised on mis-targeted liberal nostalgia for a version of Bill Clinton's presidency that never happened.

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Why I Cannot Support Barack Obama

Al Checchi | Posted 01.21.2012

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Al Checchi

I wrote the following four years ago in October, 2008 just prior to the national elections. I will not vote to reelect the president.

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Jason Linkins

Pretend Democrats Rewrite Column Advising Obama Not To Run For Re-Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.21.2012

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Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell, who pretend to be Democrats even though they do not support Democratic politicians or causes or policy platforms, have a column up in the Wall Street Journal advising President Barack Obama to quit now and not run for re-election, even though the only GOP candidate that seems to pose a consistent challenge to him in the polls is Mitt Romney, and the Obama re-elect team has sort of started raising money to run for re-election and everything. It's almost needless to say that Democrats should never follow the advice of Schoen and Caddell.

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Jason Linkins

Pretend Democrats Advise Obama Not To Run For Re-Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell are best known for going on the Fox News Channel, where they pretend to be "Democratic strategists." But unlike virtually every other Democratic strategist in the Western world, the two men show a studied disinterest in and a complete antipathy for any of the philosophies for which the Democratic Party is best known. Their advice for President Barack Obama? Quit. That's sure to send a powerful message of leadership and responsibility.

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Regardless of What Politico Says, Losing Is Still Not Winning

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Asher Smith

It seems to some that President Obama would be much better off as a figurehead. You see, his greatest problem is that he has simply been too powerful.

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Understanding the Tea Party, in New York and Nationwide

Davidson Goldin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Davidson Goldin

The media is most fundamentally addicted to conflict, and The Tea Party provides them with the perfect user-generated political movement, tailor-made for a new media world.

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Health Care Reform: Caddell and Schoen Have It Wrong

John Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Zogby

We don't agree that Democrats will get all the blame whether the Obama plan passes or fails.

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The NY Times and "Push Polling"

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Blumenthal

I've lost count of how many times we've seen it happen. A campaign testing negative messages on an internal poll gets accused of conducting a "push po...

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Re: Obama Approval and the Battle of Interpretations

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Blumenthal

If you haven't yet read Charles Franklin's comments on yesterday's Wall Street Journal op-ed by pollsters Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen, click now a...

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Sam Stein

Bill Clinton Former Adviser: Hillary Should Have Gone Negative Sooner

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some Democratic officials are cringing over the negative tone that the primary race between Sens. Obama and Clinton has taken, worried about party coh...

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Marcus, Marshall and Three-Fer Luckovich Win Opinion Awards from The Week

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tomorrow night, The Week magazine, in association with the Aspen Institute, will host its fifth annual Opinion Awards in D.C. for an assemblage of typ...

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