Presidential Campaign

How Negative Political Campaigning Is Crippling America

Todd Phillips | Posted 05.31.2012

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Negative campaigning prevents many good candidates from entering politics and leaves us with candidates who are comfortable with conflict. Government becomes populated with people who are primed for conflict, which causes deadlocks and paralysis.

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Where to Eat If You Want To Be President

The Daily Meal | Posted 05.24.2012

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Campaign season is getting into full swing. So, where are the candidates eating this year?

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Mitt, The Incidental Candidate

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- He barely speaks in his own first general-election ad. On the top floor of his Boston campaign headquarters, the most visible poster is ...

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Jump Ball!

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.19.2012

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With the primary season fading from memory, the first skirmishes of the general election are just beginning. At this point, it's too close to call.

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Controversial Obama Campaign Ad Draws a Page From GOP Playbook

Jerry Lanson | Posted 05.03.2012

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Sadly, wisdom and fairness are hardly central to contemporary American political campaigns. If they were, the far more scurrilous Swift-boating of John Kerry in 2004 would have resulted in George W. Bush's defeat.

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PHOTOS: 9 Striking Presidential Campaign Posters

Brooke Gladstone | Posted 05.02.2012

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The most effective campaign posters of every era leave as much as possible to the voter's imagination. They are like Japanese manga: the less detailed the image, the more easily we can identify with the candidate, the more space for projecting our dreams.

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New Gangs in Politics

Ted Kaufman | Posted 04.26.2012

There are some new gangs in our political neighborhoods called "super PACS" and they distorted the outcome in a number of states during the Republican presidential nomination campaign.

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Romney Campaign Announces $12.6 Million Haul In March

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney brought in close to $12.6 million in March, his campaign announced on Friday. The campaign has in total raised $87 millio...

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Every First Family Is in the Top 1%

Anthony Gregory | Posted 04.18.2012

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"Are these people too far removed from normal Americans to be in the White House?" It is a most ridiculous question. Even if they are not, the second they relocate to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they have moved into an entirely different class altogether.

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Have We Ever Learned Anything From A Squabble Over A Candidate's Family?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.13.2012

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Each of these have made headlines over the years. Not a one gave us an bit of insight about how a given candidate would govern.

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Fostering Political Hate: It's a MAD World Out There

Terry Newell | Posted 06.03.2012

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During the Cold War, we coined the phrase Mutually Assured Destruction. Campaign politics is an equally MAD world, but its effects are not hypothetical, and mutual deterrence is not working.

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Let's Require the Full Monty for Candidate Tax Returns

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 05.29.2012

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It's great that some candidates are willing to disclose their tax returns (after all sorts of hectoring and moralizing from the media). But it shouldn't be a choice; it should be the law.

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No Absolutes: A Shyster's Dream World

Charles Redfern | Posted 05.26.2012

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Don't ferret the truth -- because there is no truth. There are only positions and opinions and feelings and beliefs. One opinion is just as valid as the other in the rudderless sea and the clowns have tied down the anchor.

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What Science Says About Santorum's 'War On Porn'

Posted 03.25.2012

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/23/2012 01:07 PM EDT on LiveScience With a statement decrying the Obama administ...

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Game On for 'Game Change'

Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 05.16.2012

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My great hope is that this film calls attention to the fatal flaw in our political system where we focus on horse races and winning at any cost all the while ignoring the problems that beg to be addressed.

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Sarah Palin Goes Rogue In 'Game Change'

Posted 05.11.2012

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"Game Change" (Sat., 9 p.m. EST on HBO) offered a dramatized look at Sarah Palin's role in the 2008 presidential campaign. The story followed her from...

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The American Promise: The Right to Vote

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.09.2012

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Right now many states are attempting to put new voting restrictions in place that parallel all the old tricks and turn back the clock on civil rights to the days when voting was used as a tool for political control and exclusion.

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My VP Pick: Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ret. Admiral Williams Owens

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.05.2012

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As indicated in prior blogs and on www.kotlikoff2012.org, I'm running for president on the Americans Elect platform. (If you would like to support my...

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Dangerous Moral Cynicism Rears Its Head on Both Sides of the Aisle

Byron Williams | Posted 05.05.2012

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It is rather arrogant and contradictory to run for Congress, proclaiming one's hatred for the institution that is Washington, D.C., vowing not to compromise, while promising to change the political tone.

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Protect The Boundaries Between Religion And Government

Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy | Posted 05.05.2012

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Across more than 50 years of ministry, the overarching theme of my work has been protecting the boundaries between religion and government because I value both.

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Minnesota Couple Finds Super Old Campaign Treasure

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.23.2012

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As the 2012 presidential race heats up, a reminder of campaigns past has popped up in an unexpected place. Rob and Christine Winter, owners of Ant...

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Presidential Campaigns' January Fundraising And Spending Numbers Visualized

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.22.2012

Reports about January's fundraising numbers, released on February 20, have focused on two narratives: Mitt Romney's limited fundraising and high burn ...

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Election Year Follies: The Disingenuous Jobs Debate

Scott Bittle | Posted 04.13.2012

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We're being treated to a morass of slogans and glib promises. Given how crucial this issue is to most Americans, the electorate deserves a lot better. Here's a modest proposal for a franker, productive debate.

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Republicans to America's Hungry: "Let Them Eat the Safety Net."

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.10.2012

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Childhood hunger is an invisible epidemic. Invisible, because there is no political will in America to address it, or even acknowledge that it exists.

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PHOTOS: Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Get-Up, Tim Russert's White Board

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Races for the White House are hardly ever quiet, with voices chiming in from the media, supporters, opponents and, naturally, the politi...

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