- Is Rush Limbaugh’s Country Gone? 'A plurality (49-43) of young people hold a favorable view of socialism. Liberal Democrats by a solid 59-33; and African Americans, 55-36. Hispanics are modestly opposed, 49-44, to socialism, but they hold decisively negative attitudes toward capitalism, 55-32.' http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/is-rush-limbaughs-country-gone/ 461 comments politics
- To the dismay of the conservative movement, on virtually every burning issue that preoccupies the right, the country has moved steadily leftward. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/edsall-the-culture-war-and-the-jobs-crisis/ 88 comments politics
- No, you cannot have your country back. America is moving forward. No amount of outside money or voter suppression or fear mongering or lying — and there was a ton of each — was enough to blunt that message. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/picket-fence-apocalypse/?hp 763 comments politics
- The age of Reagan is officially over, and the Obama majority is the only majority we have. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/douthat-the-obama-realignment/ 5 comments politics
- The Right has declared war on facts in response to what they claim is a liberal war on faith. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/liberty-to-lie/ 40 comments politics
- It doesn't matter that Romney lies - people will vote for him even when they know he's not telling the truth. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/liberty-to-lie/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121101 5 comments politics
- The Undisclosed Mitt Romney: In refusing to make his tax returns public, give any details about his deficit reduction plan or disclose the names of his campaign bundlers, Romney is setting a dangerous precedent for other politicians to follow http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/the-undisclosed-mitt-romney/?ref=opinion 15 comments politics
- "Paul Ryan shirtless" currently gets nine times more Google searches than "Paul Ryan budget." http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/googles-crystal-ball/ 104 comments politics
- This lack of a plausible vision, more than his stutters and missed opportunities, is what doomed the president in last week’s debate. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/douthat-liberalisms-glass-jaw/ 5 comments moderatepolitics
- "For Mitt Romney, the history buster would be that no candidate in the modern polling era with personal favorability ratings as low as his has ever won the presidency. " http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/economy-or-personality/?scp=1&sq=kohut%20romney%20obama&st=cse 3 comments politics
- Romney's failure in Pennsylvania is a metric for the Republican party as a whole. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/whats-wrong-with-pennsylvania/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120924 3 comments politics
- Romney seems willing to let someone else decide whether to start what may be the first potential regional war of the new “American century.” That is not real leadership; it is dangerous pandering and a strong indication of a prospective president without a genuine foreign policy compass http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/israeli-fallout/?hp 4 comments politics
- Romney is apparently prepared to delegate to Netanyahu the decision to start a conflict that the United States military believes is, at best, premature, that is unlikely to be fully effective, that will send oil prices skyrocketing, that will further destabilize Lebanon and Syria http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/israeli-fallout/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120914 5 comments politics
- For all his talk about American sovereignty, Mitt Romney seems willing to let Benjamin Netanyahu decide whether to start a regional war http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/israeli-fallout/ 110 comments politics
- The Ryan Sinkhole http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/edsall-the-ryan-sinkhole/ 3 comments politics
- Republicans who are wondering how Obama could be polling as well as he is with unemployment above 8% might want to take a look at this graph (x-post from /r/uspolitics) http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/has-obama-made-the-job-situation-worse/ 6 comments politics
- By examining employment data for the 64 years from the beginning of Harry Truman’s presidency to the end of George W. Bush’s, one can found that an average of 2 million jobs were created per year when a Democrat was president, compared with one million annually when a Republican was president http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/has-obama-made-the-job-situation-worse/?src=me&ref=general 8 comments politics
- All the Single Ladies - After listening to Republican politicians & their proxies on TV & radio, I'm left wondering why ANY women vote for Republicans http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/blow-all-the-single-ladies/?ref=opinion 130 comments politics
- "Romney has to find a line of attack that works because there is a creeping feeling beginning to overtake part of the electorate that his candidacy is in trouble. The problem is that these sorts of desperate, baseless attacks only amplify the sense of panic." http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/the-welfare-gambit/ 3 comments politics
- The dirt on Romney's biggest donor: his money comes from gambling, forbidden by Mormonism. And a lawsuit accuses him of personally condoning use of hookers to draw customers to his casinos. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/embracing-sheldon-adelson 95 comments politics
- The debate over voter ID laws has the potential to shape public perception of the fairness of the 2012 election. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/killing-a-fly-with-a-bazooka/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120730 6 comments politics
- The ‘Merit-Based Society’: Romney is "calling for is a society that rewards hard-hearted, relentless competitors and disregards the losers." http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/the-merit-based-society/ 8 comments politics
- No one on Wall Street has been held accountable 4 years after perpetrating the greatest financial crime on the American people, a heist that has cost millions of people their homes and their jobs. No one has been held accountable for pouring 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/how-to-get-our-citizens-actually-united/ 1200 comments politics
- Been saying for years that software engineering = permanent job elimination. It's starting to come true... http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/the-future-of-joblessness/ 4 comments worldnews
- Does increased automation mean a future filled with joblessness? http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/the-future-of-joblessness/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120709 19 comments politics
- Racial animus cost Mr. Obama three to five percentage points of the popular vote...Increased support and turnout from African-Americans added only about one percentage point to Mr. Obama’s totals http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/how-racist-are-we-ask-google/?src=me&ref=general 3 comments politics
- G.O.P. Nightmare Charts http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/g-o-p-nightmare-charts 3 comments politics
- G.O.P. Nightmare Charts http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/g-o-p-nightmare-charts/ 8 comments politics
- The Politics of Going to College http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/the-politics-of-going-to-college/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120402 3 comments politics
- The Outsourced Party - Republicans have turned themselves over body and soul to outside interests http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/the-outsourced-party/?hp 9 comments politics
- When conservatives cry “freedom of religion” and insist they mean something more than “freedom of worship,” this is what they mean: It is the freedom to impose one’s own religious values on others. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/leaps-of-faith/ 623 comments politics
- Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists? -- One needn’t endorse the politics of these people or countries to feel that given the complexities of an ever more technologically sophisticated world, the United States could benefit from the participation and example of more scientists in government http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/why-dont-americans-elect-scientists?mrefid=twitter 12 comments politics
- Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists? - NYTimes.com http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/why-dont-americans-elect-scientists/?ref=politics 14 comments politics
- Halftime in America -- It was Bush who first agreed to save Chrysler, and it was Bush who agreed to a $4 billion bailout of the company. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/its-halftime-in-america/?src=me&ref=general 109 comments politics
- 'The issue here is not about class envy: What the public wants is not a war on the rich but more policies that promote opportunity.' http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/dont-mind-the-gap/?ref=opinion& 3 comments politics
- Santorum accuses Obama of "elitist snobbery" for saying "under my administration, every American child should go to college" http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/rick-santorums-anti-college-rant/?_r=1 6 comments politics
- Ron Paul's World http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/ron-pauls-world/?ref=opinion 3 comments politics
- For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/?hp 3 comments politics
- Looking Beyond Election Day: "Not to depress you, but our economic troubles are likely to continue for many years -- a decade or more." http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/looking-beyond-election-day/ 7 comments politics
- "The Gulf of Morality"- Liberals and Conservatives have vastly different values http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/the-gulf-of-morality/?hp 4 comments politics