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- Might a private equity firm's decision to divest from gun manufacturing signal a new concern for ethics? Bah, humbug!
- Forget the 'baggage'; with her emotional appeal, blue-collar roots and charisma, she's everything Mitt Romney isn't
- To win, Republicans need to promote a kinder, gentler capitalism
- Mitt Romney's chameleon-like nature makes him distrusted by the full spectrum of the party that nominated him for president.
- Richard Cross says the candidate's ideological flexibility made it hard for voters to connect with him
- Mitt Romney touts his job creation skills, but his record in Massachusetts was abysmal.
- After failing to attack Mitt Romney in the first debate, President Obama is under pressure to be more aggressive in the second. But will that backfire?
- Mitt Romney won the debate with President Obama, but he didn't produce the kind of made-for-TV moments that would make it a game-changer in this election.
- As the Occupy movement turns 1, it is not the spirit of the protests but the money of the 1 percent that is animating the presidential campaign.
- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said that the GOP vision for the nation's economy would "spell disaster for America's middle class" and that soon-to-be nominee Mitt Romney "doesn't have what it takes to grow this economy."
- President Obama will now have to produce a budget plan of his own to counter Paul Ryan's.
- President Obama burdens us with debt, but Mitt Romney offers to lift us up with hope.
- The GOP nominee should forget the fight with Harry Reid and go after Obama on waste and economic mismanagement.
- Mitt Romney is right that Harry Reid should put up or shut up on his allegations about the GOP nominee's tax returns, but only Mr. Romney can make the issue go away.
- President Obama is hindered by a terrible economy, but he has a real shot at re-election unless Mitt Romney gets his campaign in gear.
- The research suggests that President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney are much more effective than Romney's attacks on Obama.
- Mitt Romney can make the case that he will do a better job running the economy if he can show how he will deal with unfair competition from China.
- I missed the debut last Sunday of a sorry little 30-minute piece of political propaganda called "Politics Unplugged" -- the product of former governor Bob Ehrlich and his wife, Kendel, buying time Sunday mornings on Baltimore's WMAR. But I caught it this week...
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- Like his father before him, Mitt Romney would be better served to release his tax returns now than keep them secret
- Companies like Bain do much to help the economy, but Mitt Romney is failing to mount a credible defense of his time there under attack from President Obama. He could do well to take a page out of his opponent's 2008 playbook.
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- Doyle McManus assesses the good, bad and ugly of political advertising so far this year
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- Journalists need to investigate Romney's record at Bain.
- Romney's record at Bain Capital is fair game, but so is Obama's background
- The public deserves to hear a full accounting of the actions of Bain Capital under Mitt Romney
- Joe Biden may get his foot stuck in his mouth, but he never comes across as awkward in trying to connect to audiences of diverse backgrounds.
- The kind of capitalism practiced by Mitt Romney is the reason why employment and wages have stagnated for American workers.
- The ugliness in the Republican presidential primary that super PACs have fostered may be a necessary step before the two parties can come together behind efforts to stem the torrent of money in politics facilitated by the Citizens United decision.
- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vicious race-baiting in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary debate Monday shows he is desperate to save a sinking campaign
- Republican candidates deplore the predatory capitalism practiced at Mitt Romney's old firm, but they would do nothing to stop it.
- GOP presidential primary contender Mitt Romney claims any attack on his performance at Bain Capital is an attack on the capitalist system; actually it's an attack on the kind of unregulated, predatory capitalism that corrupts everything it touches
- Republican presidential candidates confront Mitt Romney's Bain Capital and the problems posed by unfettered capitalism