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Noting that vast majorities of Americans of all parties favor less U.S. involvement in Middle East leadership changes, not more, Daniel Lari...

Seasoned Democratic political operatives doubtless saw mainly chaos and certain defeat in the 1972 Democratic National Convention, in which ...

First we all watched the first debate and stood gaping as Obama's lead vanished in the aftermath. Then we learned that Obama's poll ...

Obama did a lot of things right in the Hofstra debate. But one core Romney lie he let go unchallenged repeatedly. I go to my tweet tape: @...

I have for some months been compiling a set of Romney Rules for electoral competition, all of which boil down, essentially, to "rule x...

Lord-a-mercy, Obama just killed Romney on the 47%. Was it genius, or luck that he saved it for the end, when there was no time for rebuttal?...

David Weigel notes that he tax stance that served Obama well in his town hall debate with McCain in 2008 will not serve four years later: ...

Well, dear reader(s), excuse my absence during a little anniversary getaway weekend, spent not looking at polling news and gnawing over the ...

Going away for the weekend, freaked out by recent polls, holding my breath until Tuesday night...and so reposting one that got a little lost...

If you'll forgive a bit of navel-gazing: I am nonplussed by my anomalous debate reactions. For Democrats, the Biden-Ryan debate was pl...

I begin to think I'm not a good reader of debates. While not looking at commentary, I was afraid that Biden would be laughed off the nat...

I'd like to offer a quick elaboration of a wise tweet by LOLGOP: The most important thing Joe Biden can do tonight is describe the Ry...

Kevin Drum has been hammering home two crucial insights about the Oct. 3 debate between Obama and Romney. First, that the spectacular flip-o...

In an article pinging across the internets just now, 34 year-old reporter Jim Tankersley calls his 63 year-old lawyer father to the bar to ...

Today is xpostfactoid's fifth birthday as a continuous blog, after a couple of false starts.  Since the blog's heart, for better or ...

Frontline has put up a series of "artifacts" from the lives of Obama and Romney, including a letter , highlighted by Fallows , tha...

Generalizations about generations -- particularly boomer-whacking ones -- always drive me around the bend. I don't know whether I'll...

In June 2011, when the Times' Binyamin Appelbaum warned that no president since Roosevelt has won reelection with the unemployment rate ...

Obama continues to insist that Romney has proposed a $5 trillion tax cut -- he did it again today at a rally in Denver -- and liberal comme...

Well, I don't know that this debate was quite as bad for Obama as the general consensus. He did get some core points across: that Romney...