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Opinion: The Name Calling Is Getting Out Of Control
Both political parties – Republicans and Democrats – are known for getting carelessly carried away with name calling when stakes and tensions are high in the political arena. Regardless, there is no...
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Opinion: Another Hurricane Reminds Us Of The Need For An Effective...
The 2012 presidential campaign between President Obama and Mitt Romney will be book-ended by hurricanes. It opened with fears of a storm striking the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Remnant...
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Opinion: Early Voting Is Getting Ridiculous
Imagine a rule in your family which says you can open your Christmas gift any time from November 20 to December 25. Or, how about being told you can open your birthday present any time from 35 days...
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Opinion: The Auto Bailout Wasn’t A Safe Financial Deal For America
As the political “left” and President Barack Obama continue to try to gain much-needed political support in the Midwest’s manufacturing states such as Ohio and Michigan prior to the quickly...
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Opinion: Auto Manufacturing Is Back In America. Obama Was Right, Romney Was...
”If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.” That was the lead of Mitt Romney’s op-ed...
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Opinion: Benghazi-Gate: Obama’s Unconscionable Actions
Seven weeks after the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the horrendous story which continually points to President Barack Obama...
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Opinion: Sandy Reminds Us Of The Need For FEMA And That Romney Would Shut It...
As I have written before, presidential races often turn on the unexpected. So much of what every campaign does every day is scripted and controlled by those running the campaign. But major events...
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Opinion: Selectively Presidential: Obama Chooses To Be Presidential When It’s...
President Barack Obama, once again, had an opportunity to have a presidential moment when Hurricane Sandy moved to the nation’s Eastern shores on Monday. This time, the president chose the proper...
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Opinion: Single-Issue Voting Is Wrong In These Multi-Issue Times
During this election cycle in 2012, like no other time one can remember, Americans tend to be talking about voting due to one single issue or another. Whether it be the Sandra Fluke issue of free...
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Opinion: Obama’s Not “All That” With College Kids Anymore
Whether it’s because college kids are getting smarter or have just found better things to do with their energy and time over the past four years, there is a survey result which indicates that...
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Opinion: Sandy: The Match-Maker Of All Match-Makers
Who would have thought that Hurricane Sandy would turn out to be the match-maker of all match-makers during her brief but impactful visit to New Jersey this week? Two political foes have shared...
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Opinion: Obama And Christie Do The Right Thing Working Together As The Right...
On Wednesday of this week, the Jersey shore saw one of the most remarkable turn of events in this presidential election: the President of the United States and one of his most vocal critics this...
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Opinion: Go vote.
With less than a week to go, the presidential race of 2012 is basically all over except for the voting – and, of course, the counting of ballots. The big influencers at this point are the polls which...
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Opinion: A Few Brave Newspapers Endorse Romney Fighting Tide Of Liberal Press
While many newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates are expected to be for one candidate or the other due to the newspapers’ past affiliations and endorsements of the candidates’...
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Opinion: Obamacare Should Win It For Mitt Romney
As we enter the last four days of the oft-times endless-appearing presidential campaign of 2012, there is one thing that has not changed throughout the entire process. That is the data-driven...
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Opinion: Romney’s Desperation Showing In Final Days Of Campaign
The Romney campaign enters this weekend in a bind. This race has boiled down to Ohio. The problem for Romney is that the Obama campaign has built a firewall there. Between advertising, organizing and...
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The Redskins-Panthers Game Could Predict The Election, But Injuries May Veto...
By Ted Fleming You might want to excuse Barack Obama and Mitt Romney if they want to take about three hours off from their last minute campaigning on Sunday to tune into a particular football game. It...
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Opinion: President Obama Says Vote For Revenge
Though President Barack Obama has said that he was not influenced by the sermons, preached messages and teachings he received from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the South Side of Chicago in the...
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Opinion: On Election Eve Major Concerns About Disenfranchisement
It’s Election Eve and there are already major concerns about the ability of people to vote. From Florida and Ohio early vote disasters with long lines to power outages in Connecticut, New Jersey and...
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Opinion: Obama’s Biggest Failure Has Been On Race Relations
Even those who were for Sen. John McCain for president in 2008 took comfort in knowing that even though McCain lost, having the nation’s first black president would most certainly lead to an improved...
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Opinion: Ballots Full Of Women
Famously, Mitt Romney boasted at the second presidential debate about binders full of women. He was telling a story about how he asked for more female candidates for political jobs when he was elected...
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Opinion: On Election Day Romney Keeping His Mind On The Business-At-Hand
Draw your own conclusions from the candidates’ scheduled events for Election Day 2012 as many have. President Barack Obama will be in Chicago, his hometown, even though he already has stopped by his...
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Opinion: This Is What A Mandate Looks Like
After two years and more than two billion dollars spent, President Obama was returned to Washington with a clear mandate on the economy and the direction of the country. When it came to our economic...
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Opinion: Ten Reasons Mitt Romney Lost The Election
Today, Republicans feel a combination of confusion, disbelief, and anger as to how a slim majority of Americans can possibly want four more years of the Obama administration in the White House. To...
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Election Day 2012: Constant Coverage
Continuous updates throughout the day and night until this is all over. If you have any news or tips email me at mathews.pierson@cbs.com or tweet to @matpierson. Election Day 2012: Your Choice: Obama...
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Opinion: Karl Rove Is The Most Overrated Person In Politics Today
The two best words to describe Karl Rove are OVER and RATED. Rove has managed to spin himself a personal fortune in national politics despite his work in the field. His reputation, however, does not...
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Hitting To All Fields: LSU’s “DEATH VALLEY” Is BEST Environment In College...
I went to “College Football Heaven” last Saturday Night: Alabama-LSU…Death Valley is The Craziest & BEST Environment in College Football… “DEATH VALLEY” is The Epicenter of the College Football...
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Opinion: Quit Gloating And Whining
Even though it’s only three days after the presidential election of 2012 and a certain amount of gloating on the part of President Barack Obama supporters and a certain amount of whining is expected...
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Opinion: Elections Have Consequences
President Obama won an Electoral College landslide on Tuesday. He held on to every swing state that Romney needed to win. Obama defeated Romney in his home states of Massachusetts and Michigan and in...
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Opinion: Our Veterans Should Not Be At Risk In Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
This Veterans Day, American leaders should make a few simple commitments. First, America should not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans. Any budget deal has to protect the benefits that...
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Opinion: Just Biding Our Time
Since the election, I have seen several staunch President Barack Obama supporters who have had nearly-identical smirks across their smiling lips as they approached. The last time I’d seen each of...
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Opinion: Churches Shouldn’t Be The Next Super PACs
It is time to end the tax exempt status of religious organizations that advocated for a partisan candidate. Churches are free to exercise their First Amendment guaranteed right to free speech. But...
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Opinion: Mitt Romney’s Parting Gift
Mitt Romney gave America a parting gift yesterday. It wasn’t his tax returns or the secret roadmap to make his tax cuts reduce the deficit. In fact the Romney campaign’s economic advisor came out for...
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Opinion: Chris Christie Is In The Wrong Business
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is obviously in the wrong business. He is becoming more of a television celebrity by the minute and getting much better reviews as a television performer than a...
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Opinion: Republicans Focus On Conspiracy Theories Instead Of Solutions For...
Republicans are spinning all sorts of conspiracy theories about General Petraeus’ unfortunate personal decisions. Revelations surrounding the affair have prompted the tin foil hat crowd on the right...
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Opinion: Grover Puts Himself Before Party And Country
In the Presidential debates, Mitt Romney targeted Big Bird as a place to take the knife when cutting the federal budget. But it turns out that Grover, and not Big Bird, has the most to lose following...
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Study: Public Gives Obama Re-Election Campaign ‘C+’ Grade
CHARLOTTE (CBS Charlotte) -- A recently conducted survey revealed that the majority of Americans found presidential campaigning for the 2012 election to be especially negative on both sides of the...
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Opinion: Republicans Finally Admitting To Voter Suppression Efforts
Throughout the election season, The Buck Starts Here followed the New Suppressionist’s efforts to disenfranchise voters in an effort to benefit Republican candidates. A state legislative leader in...
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Man Charged In Romney Tax Return Scheme
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been charged in a scheme involving former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s income tax returns. The U.S. Justice Department said 34-year-old...
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GOP, Tea Party Show Growing Divide
FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) — Tea party activists, once unquestioned as a benefit to the Republican Party for supplying it with votes and energy, are now criticizing GOP leaders at seemingly every turn....
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