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The Disappearing Republicans: Where Have Bush and Romney Gone?
In today’s Daily Comment, Jeffrey Toobin writes about how the disappearance of Republican presidential candidates from political life in the past couple of decades, aside from John McCain, “reflects a fundamental problem with the contemporary Republican Party.”
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Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty.
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Time Names Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912→
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an extraordinary gesture of recognition for a losing Presidential nominee, Time magazine today named former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912. Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/UDVcf7
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Shouts & Murmurs: Lunch Date→
What Obama and Romney discussed at their White House lunch date: http://nyr.kr/Vb0pMi
ROMNEY: I hate you so much.
OBAMA: Excuse me?
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Obama’s Drone Problem
Amy Davidson asks, “The Obama Administration worried about how Romney might use its targeted-assassination program: but was the problem Mitt or the “kill list” itself?” Continue reading.
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Cartoon by Jack Ziegler. For more: http://nyr.kr/UDhVq4
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Romney’s “Gift” Gaffe: What He Meant to Say
John Cassidy:
What another fine mess Mitt Romney has gotten himself into. In telling some of his big campaign contributors, on a Wednesday conference call listened in on by at least two reporters, that he lost the election because President Obama bestowed “gifts” on blacks, Hispanics, and young voters, the Mittster has brought another large heap of opprobrium down upon his finely chiseled numbskull, including some finely crafted words of criticism from my colleague Alex Koppelman. As usual with Romney, it’s hard to tell whether his biggest problem is his thorny relationship to the English language, his rich-guy empathy deficit, or his stunning disregard for, or obliviousness to, how his words will be received. Whatever the problem is, I thought, as a parting gift to someone who rarely failed to deliver for the campaign press, I’d do a quick translation. Here, then, is what, I’m sure, Romney meant to say
Photograph by David Burnett/Contact Press.
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"Election forecasts are great fun, but nobody should take the individual predictions they generate too seriously, wherever they come from, or however they are constructed."
— John Cassidy on election math like Nate Silver’s on his blog FiveThirtyEight. Read Cassidy on forecasting elections. -
DEBATE SHOCKER: Debate Ends Abruptly as Obama Punches Romney in Face→
BOCA RATON (The Borowitz Report)— The third and final Presidential debate ended in dramatic fashion tonight as President Obama punched Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the face, knocking him unconscious before a national television audience. Continue reading.
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The cover of this week’s issue, by artist Barry Blitt, pays homage to the Norman Rockwell painting “The Tattoo Artist.” We asked Blitt how he came up with the idea: See his response.
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The Bill and Henry James Election
Adam Gopnik on the problem of chance in baseball playoffs and elections, and how we will look back upon the next three weeks in the future:
What is true of sports narratives is yet truer, and yet still less accepted, of elections. The Bill James revolution has come to politics and polling now …but not, one might say, the Henry James revolution that ought to go with it, where we stand in awe of how chance events can seem in retrospect like fated certainties…
