It’s ScuttleButton Time!
Just a word to the wise, that if you are considering taking refuge in the American Embassy in Beijing, don’t expect me to mail you a Political Junkie t-shirt if you happen to be the randomly chosen ScuttleButton winner. And don’t expect to be the randomly chosen ScuttleButton winner if you don’t know how to [...]
The Funniest Presidents In History?
We open with a joke: What do you call a graying politician who moonlights as a comedian? Answer: Mr. President In the aftermath of President Obama’s teleprompted routine at the 2012 White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night, observers have been weighing in on his performance. Some didn’t think he was all that funny. On [...]
Adviser: Romney’s VP ‘Short List’ Could Contain 20 Names
If history holds, Mitt Romney is still months away from announcing a vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket. But he continues to make appearances with those who could be on the so-called short list. Or in Romney’s case, it may still be a rather long list. On Monday, Romney campaigned with freshman Sen. [...]
Romney SuperPAC Pulls Negative Primary Spots From YouTube
As earlier reported by Politico, the pro-Romney SuperPAC Restore Our Future has removed most of the ads it produced during the primary campaign from its YouTube channel. Only two videos remain: one positive ad recounting Romney’s efforts to help a business partner find his missing teenage daughter, and one negative ad attacking President Obama’s economic [...]
Romney Campaign Tries To Reopen Obama-Clinton Primary Fight Wounds
Throughout the Republican primary campaign, opponents of Mitt Romney have handed President Obama lots of potential general-election fodder in their attacks on the front-runner. And now that Romney is the presumptive GOP nominee, he’s dipping back four years to the 2008 Democratic primary battle for some ammunition of his own. That’s because the Obama campaign [...]
Top Five Vice Presidential Picks Since 1960
With Mitt Romney having all but sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, there is only one task left for restless political junkies and reporters for the next four months: predict Romney’s running mate. I constantly make the argument that the significance of the vice-presidential nomination is often overblown, assuming greater importance than it deserves to [...]
The Death Of Facts In An Age Of ‘Truthiness’
According to columnist Rex Huppke, there was a recent death that you might have missed. It wasn’t an actor, musician or famous politician, but facts. In a piece for the Chicago Tribune, Huppke says facts – things we know to be true – are now dead. Huppke says the final blow came on Wednesday, April [...]
Presidential Politics Hits The Hill, And Students Win
The general election campaign for president is springing to life, now that Mitt Romney is all but certain to be President Obama’s Republican opponent next fall. On Capitol Hill, though, the battle over who will sign or veto Congress’ bills next year is already blazing. In two key votes this past week, many Republicans fell [...]
Obama Team Changes Line Of Attack Against Romney
General-election battle lines are taking shape between President Obama and likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Romney is sticking with his long-standing attack on the president as someone not up to the huge job of turning around the economy. But the Obama campaign has recently changed its message: Instead of portraying Romney as a flip-flopping, say-anything [...]
The Wisconsin Recall That Nobody’s Talking About
If the job of the vice president is, as John Adams so famously put it, “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived,” what must it be like to be lieutenant governor? And, to go a step further, what about a lieutenant governor facing recall? As Wisconsin Public [...]
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