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Romney has zero tolerance for the unsuccessful
By Michael Kinsley, Washington Post August 02, 2012, 10:55 AMIf your success is entirely your own achievement, then your lack of success is entirely your own fault.
Romney's London flop
By CHRIS CILLIZZA, Washington Post August 01, 2012, 05:50 PMBrits were left wholly unimpressed.
Editorial: Campaign trail leads to the Middle East
By Washington Post August 01, 2012, 05:49 PMObama, Romney differ more in style than in substance.
A campaign isn't just for gaffes
By RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post July 31, 2012, 08:27 PMClumsy remarks can be revealing, but pouncing on them is no substitute for real debate.
Stopping the 'other guy'
By FRED HIATT, Washington Post July 30, 2012, 07:25 PMVoters are being motivated by a conviction that the opponent's agenda would be dangerous.
Obama has learned from the 1980s
By DOUG ROSSINOW, Washington Post July 29, 2012, 07:10 PMHis campaign is tapping strategies used successfully by Republicans then.
Lori Sturdevant: Party endorsement needed? Debatable.
By LORI STURDEVANT, Washington Post July 28, 2012, 06:10 PMActually, if it comes down to a narrow group vs. the broader electorate, the answer is easy.
Mark Ritchie is abusing his office
By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Washington Post July 28, 2012, 05:50 PMKatherine Kersten says he replaced the Legislature's straightforward voter ID amendment title "with a fog of bureaucratic gobbledygook."
If Iran is the criterion, Obama is the candidate
By JEFFREY GOLDBERG, Washington Post July 27, 2012, 08:32 PMIf elected, Mitt Romney would face critical challenges that the president would not.
The debate over gay marriage is futile
By Michael Kinsley, Washington Post July 27, 2012, 12:23 PMDoes anybody believe that five years from now it will be harder than it is today for two women or two men to marry? I
Editorial: Weak process yields election-year mess
By Washington Post July 26, 2012, 08:41 PMRancor reveals flaws in constitutional-amendment system.
State ballot measures -- the name game
By WILLIAM MCGEVERAN and MYRON ORFIELD, Washington Post July 26, 2012, 08:41 PMA 1919 Minnesota law says, 'The secretary of state shall provide an appropriate title' for every question on the ballot.
Michele Bachmann -- a dangerous fundamentalist?
By FRANK BRUNI, Washington Post July 25, 2012, 09:11 PMBachmann's concept of Christian love brims with hate, and she has a deep satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah did she learn that?
We expect a better campaign
By EDITORIAL, Washington Post July 25, 2012, 09:10 PMBoth presidential candidates are diminished by a failure to articulate a vision of leadership.
Michele Bachmann needs a 'time out' from Congress
By EDITORIAL , Washington Post July 24, 2012, 07:25 PMIt's too bad a fair degree of what comes out of her mouth is presented without a shred of evidence, says Worthington, Minn., newspaper.
Disenfranchising America's voters
By EDITORIAL, Washington Post July 24, 2012, 06:17 PMEstimates are that 10 percent of Americans don't have a photo ID.
Really, it's been a tame campaign
By ALBERT R. HUNT, Washington Post July 23, 2012, 08:04 PMThere are still more than 100 days to go, but so far the tone and tenor of the contest between President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is tame by historical standards.
Obama and Romney play the gotcha game
By DOYLE McMANUS, Washington Post July 23, 2012, 01:54 PMIs Obama really anti-achievement? Is Romney really going to send your job to China? Why does what should be a serious policy debate sound so much like a schoolyard spat?
Let's audit those state GOP finances
By JOE REPYA, Washington Post July 22, 2012, 08:11 PMThe party says it can't afford to come clean. OK, then. We'll pick up the tab.
Ross Perot's message was ahead of his time
By CHRIS CILLIZZA, Washington Post July 22, 2012, 01:04 PMThe time is ripe today for the kind of economic-populist message he embodied.
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