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1. October 26, 2012 06:51 AM

   Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?

   We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can put to the presidential candidates. So far we’ve asked President Obama about his short term jobs plan and about housing, and Africa, among other things, and asked...

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2. August 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright

   Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy: Problems in China give some economists nightmares in which, in the worst case, the United States and much of the world slip back into recession as the Chinese economy sputters, the European currency zone collapses and political gridlock paralyzes the...

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3. August 14, 2012 01:56 AM

   Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz

   The Atlantic on what would be Mitt's "Path to Prosperity"

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running mate, reporting that "Under Paul Ryan's plan, Mitt Romney wouldn't pay any taxes for the next ten years -- or any of the years after that." Well, maybe not quite nothing. In 2010 -- the only year we have seen...

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4. July 26, 2012 06:51 AM

   False balance and the Medicare scare

   Who’s been telling the truth in Florida?

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Last Thursday the president made a campaign stop in Florida, and—surprise, surprise—he talked about Medicare. Or at least he talked a little bit about Medicare. And in in the name of political balance, the press screwed it up—a lot. Obama’s brief remarks about Medicare were a swipe at Mitt Romney for embracing a voucher plan, which would give Medicare beneficiaries...

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5. August 10, 2012 03:00 PM

   False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack

   He said-she said from the FT, and a weak showing from the WSJ

   By Ryan Chittum

   This Financial Times coverage of Mitt Romney's false attack on an Obama administration move on welfare reform is a classic example of the kind of he said-she said journalism that leaves readers throwing up their hands at all of it. Obama, reacting to requests from Republican governors, including from Romney himself seven years ago, signals a willingness by Health and...

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6. June 12, 2012 04:59 PM

   Listen: CJR staffer on Politico and media criticism

   "I understand why a[n] ... outlet like Politico would focus primarily on the political implications, but I don’t think that represents real media criticism”

   By Kira Goldenberg

   In his very first piece for CJR last week, intern Peter Sterne criticized Politico’s story that alleged a pro-Obama bias in election coverage of the president and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. This week, Sterne went on the radio to discuss it. He was a guest on Monday on The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel...

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7. August 15, 2012 03:25 PM

   Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer

   Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social Security) to Level A campaign issues. Ryan has emerged as a leading Congressional thinker and idea shaper for the GOP on fiscal matters, and his path cuts right through Medicare and Medicaid. Consider the scale: Last year the Congressional Budget...

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8. October 4, 2012 04:00 PM

   No debate about environment

   Hopes for questions about climate, public lands fall flat

   By Curtis Brainard

   The presidential candidates didn’t talk about the environment during their first debate on Wednesday. Nobody really expected them to; they just hoped that they would. Leading up to the encounter, San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, InsideClimate News, and other outlets highlighted a 160,000-signature petition that nine environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club, sent...

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9. June 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   Politico goes for ‘fair and balanced’

   And it succeeds, in the Fox News sense

   By Peter Sterne

   Last week, Politico rocked the insidery world of political journalism with an article, written by executive editor Jim VandeHei and chief White House reporter Mike Allen, that criticized The New York Times and The Washington Post for media bias. VandeHei and Allen sacrificed accuracy for angle, giving Republican operatives an uncritical platform to accuse the Times and Post—who, as GQ’s...

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10. August 6, 2012 06:50 AM

    Romney likes Israeli healthcare

    And the press takes a look at what it is. Whoa!

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Thanks to Mitt Romney’s laudatory remarks about the Israeli health system during his trip to Israel, we now know a bit about how another country provides healthcare—and how that nation manages to have better mortality and other outcomes than we do, at a far lower cost. The press, laudably, took a bread-and-butter political story—what Romney said—a big step further, explaining...

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11. June 8, 2012 11:02 AM

    The Disingenuous WSJ Opinion Pages

    Bogus arguments from Phil Gramm, Glenn Hubbard, and Peggy Noonan

    By Ryan Chittum

    Phil Gramm and Columbia B-school Dean and Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard take to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal to repeat just about every canard of the crisis. Not many people have more responsibility for the crisis than Gramm, but guess who he and Hubbard, last seen under Inside Job's klieg lights, blame: The more recent recession...

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12. June 1, 2012 11:00 AM

    The word on the street: frustrated

    Listening to voters at a Pennsylvania Walmart

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Last week a NBC News/Marist poll showed President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight race in Florida and Virginia while Obama led by six percentage points in Ohio, another swing state.The top issue: the economy; voters told pollsters the economy trumped social issues by a wide margin, and that was before today's devastating jobs report. Pennsylvania is another...

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13. June 12, 2012 12:23 PM

    The word on the street: insecure

    Listening to voters in Omaha’s Old Market

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Last week I found myself in Omaha, at the city’s Old Market, hoping to visit with some of the locals about the upcoming election for another CJR Town Hall. As usual, my sample was not scientific, but it did show what some voters are thinking. Four of the people I interviewed were young adults who seemed deeply insecure about their...

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