Drew Westen

Before we start going after middle class taxpayers, both as good policy and good politics, we would do well to remember that the middle class is and always has been the backbone of our economy

Obama needs to do precisely what he has not done thus far in debates -- connect with voters in a way that makes them feel like they know and share his values, and confident that he will keep them and their families safe.

Psychologist Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain recently spoke with NOW on PBS host and senior editor David Brancaccio about how Barack Obama...

Will Team Obama find its groove and come out swinging? Will a progressive 527 appear with memorable ads to save the day? It's hard to know --but this ad is a start.

Just hours after the Democratic Convention, the Obama campaign had forgotten everything it should have learned from its success of Denver -- and had returned to the same failed strategies that gave us Presidents Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry.

Obama is refuting charges against him in an effort not to repeat the mistake of the Kerry campaign -- but this just substitutes a new mistake for the old one.

I have to assume if you're reading this that you're sick of the Olympics already. Wow, that was fast. Is NBC's coverage going to be twice as bad as ...

Successful campaigns both inspire and raise concerns about the opposition -- an election is a choice, not a referendum, and positive and negative emotions both drive voting behavior in psychologically and neurologically distinct ways.