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  • S&P Prosecutor’s Stalled Nomination Is Bump in Fast-Track Career

    The Justice Department suit against Standard & Poor’s has entered a phase where lawyers spend months arguing over procedure, and progress is slim. Tony West, who’s overseeing the case. knows the feeling: His nomination to become the agency’s No. 3 official has been blocked for half a year.

  • Republicans Foil What Majority Wants by Gerrymandering

    Michigan’s 14th congressional district looks like a jagged letter ’S’ lying on its side.

  • Mitt Romney: This Year’s Michael Dukakis

    If, as seems possible, Mitt Romney is not elected U.S. president on Nov. 6, he will not be the first presidential candidate to run on the issue of competence and then lose because he ran an incompetent campaign. He will not even be the first governor of Massachusetts to do so.

  • Pro-Romney Group Uses Willie Horton Ad Maker to Attack Presidential Rivals

    A group supporting Mitt Romney has spent millions attacking Republican rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich -- using media firms better known for ambushing Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.

  • Willie Horton’s Revenge

    Remember Willie Horton? He was the Massachusetts prisoner, serving a sentence of life without parole for murder, who walked away from a weekend release program and later committed armed robbery and rape. In the 1988 presidential election, Republican vice president George H.W. Bush made Horton a major issue against the Democrat, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

  • Bob Rubin’s Washington Reign Reaches 20 Years

    We are fast approaching an important but underappreciated anniversary: Robert Rubin’s 20th year of extraordinary proximity to political power in Washington. This is not a milestone to be celebrated.

  • Etch A Sketch Joins Flip-Flops as New Political Weaponry

    The remark lasted only a moment, yet the metaphor may haunt Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for months or even years.

  • Perry’s ‘Oops’ Moment Recalls Earlier Presidential Debate Gaffes

    Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “oops” moment in Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate will secure him a prominent place in the annals of political mishaps.

  • If Romney’s Harvard Pals Love Him, Why Can’t You?

    I keep hearing and reading that Mitt Romney has a likeability problem. The Republican presidential candidate trails President Barack Obama by 23 points, according to an Aug. 20-22 USA Today/Gallup poll. The early post- convention polling suggests a slight bounce in Romney’s likeability, but not enough, apparently, to ensure entry to the White House.

  • The Worst Presidential Campaign Ever?: Michael Kinsley

    Barbara Bush said the other day that the 2012 presidential race has been “the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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