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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

March 22, 2013 12:44 PM Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, vs. Mitt Romney?

Sure, there's war, and unemployment, and all sorts of other terrible things...but at least we get the unreported story of the 2012 nomination battle: that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich almost formed a unity ticket to take on Mitt Romney....

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 19, 2013 10:50 AM Would Postponing Presidential Candidate Debates Matter?

I'm going to look at the GOP presidential nomination process suggested reforms out yesterday, starting with the debates. The RNC wants to chop in half the number of primary-season debates next time around, starting later (not until September 2015) and...

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 04, 2013 12:00 PM Mitt Romney Writes his Own Obituary

To Chris Wallace, about “47%.” What I said is not what I believe. Just for double irony: it’s clear that the 47% line was the one thing Romney really did and does believe: he said it again, in different words,...

By Mark Kleiman