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The GWU professor on what we can—and can’t—learn from early polling

By Greg Marx   May 19, 2011 at 04:03 PM

The 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are already being treated to polls asking if people... More

Obama’s Big Speech: Is Anyone in the Middle East Listening?

By Greg Marx   May 19, 2011 at 01:20 PM

As the president prepared to deliver his remarks on American policy in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” the lead... More

Challenging Newt’s Medicare Walkback

Choice is the least of Medicare’s problems

By Trudy Lieberman   May 18, 2011 at 03:58 PM

Poor Newt Gingrich! What a beating he’s taken since he said on Meet the Press Sunday that Paul Ryan’s scheme... More

Raising Money, Lowering Expectations

National Journal gets managed

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 18, 2011 at 02:51 PM

Of what value to readers is a story yesterday about what President Obama’s reelection team says it expects it will,... More

Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security

What’s he really talking about?

By Trudy Lieberman   May 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his... More

L.A. Times Breaks Schwarzenegger Love Child Story

As restrained a sex-scandal story as you’re likely to get

By Joel Meares   May 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM

A busy two weeks for political sex scandals, first with John Ensign, then Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now… Arnie. The... More

A Medicare Referendum? Not So Fast

Polls in N.Y. special election tell a more complicated story

By Greg Marx   May 16, 2011 at 03:52 PM

The future of Medicare is one of the biggest, most fiercely contested questions in American politics these days. And with... More

NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents

Did anybody think to ask journalists?

By Joel Meares   May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM

The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More

Romney on Romneycare is a Bust

Conservatives are not buying Mitt’s Michigan speech

By Joel Meares   May 13, 2011 at 02:57 PM

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to a stage in Ann Arbor yesterday to twist and turn his way through... More

Romney and His Health Care Plan

Does he or doesn’t he like what he did?

By Trudy Lieberman   May 13, 2011 at 02:26 PM

It would seem that the press coverage of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Michigan yesterday was greater than media... More

Reporting from the Right

Heritage Foundation aims to fill left-right coverage gap

By Ben Adler   May 12, 2011 at 03:23 PM

In the domestic Cold War a reporting gap has developed: a number of left-leaning web sites such as The Huffington... More

A 60 Percent Osama Bump?

New approval rating raises a flap

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM

An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of... More

The Secret Money “Seduction”

Democrats get their Priorities in order for 2012

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 11, 2011 at 03:41 PM

The Center for Responsive Politics recently published an analysis of the effects of last year's Citizens United Supreme Court decision... More

A Mining Disaster Follow-up Follows the Money

L.A. Times’s revealing report on inaction after the WV coal mine explosion

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM

A belated laurel to the Los Angeles Times team of Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger, and Doug Smith, of the paper’s... More

The AP Takes the Public’s Pulse

Covering Medicare, part four

By Trudy Lieberman   May 9, 2011 at 02:33 PM

Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More