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May 09, 2013 9:41 AM What Campaign Strategies Really Mattered in the 2012 Presidential Race?

As part of a look at how much campaigning actually mattered in this most recent presidential election I’ll report on some of what Lynn Vavreck and I have found in our work for The Gamble.What we didLynn and I were...

By John Sides

May 08, 2013 9:07 AM Obama’s Voter Mobilization Was Barely More Effective than Romney’s

As part of a mini-symposium on campaign effects in 2012, I welcome this guest post by Ryan Enos and Anthony Fowler.  The first post in this sequence, by Michael Franz, is here.*****Does the 2012 Obama campaign deserve the hype?  Many...

By John Sides

May 01, 2013 10:44 AM No, The President is not Being "Forced to Defend his Relevancy"

Ron Fournier: A president is in trouble when he’s forced to defend his relevancy, as Bill Clinton did 18 years ago, or to quote Mark Twain, as Barack Obama did today. “Rumors of my demise,” he said at a news...

By Jonathan Bernstein

December 19, 2012 11:37 AM President Obama: Just Let Me Be Clear

It's very frustrating to be a politician. President Barack Obama is quite eager to ensure that his words are not misinterpreted. Four words, it turns out, appear over and over in his speeches: (Video via Time.) This is probably a...

By Daniel Luzer

December 03, 2012 12:53 PM Here is Something That Didn’t Happen

All Republicans know that President Obama is an anti-Semitic Islamist Marxist who wants to throw Israel into the sea; after all, Bill Kristol has been saying so for years. So it is quite amazing that the Wall Street Journal reported...

By Jonathan Zasloff