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By Michael Barone | 06/18/13 06:25 PM
Veteran USAToday reporter Richard Benedetto, now with American and George Mason Universities and the Fund for American Studies, has the details–”the carefully chosen, softer words used by the news media when reporting on the Obama program, compared to the inflammatory and alarmist language...
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
Barack Obama’s job approval rating is down to 45% in the lastest CNN/ORC poll, conducted June 11-13, with 54% disapproval; the approval number is down from 53% in CNN/ORC’s May 17-18 poll. Most interesting result: Obama is getting only 48 approval from those age 18 to 34, only 3% above his...
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13 11:25 AM
Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington...
By Michael Barone | 06/15/13 03:10 PM
Like most journalists, I like to point back to predictions which proved true and analyses which proved prescient. Also like most journalists–and unlike the great political reporter and columnist David Broder, who wrote a column every year setting forth his mistakes–I don’t like to look...
By Michael Barone | 06/14/13 12:50 PM
Quinnipiac has an interesting poll in Colorado, showing Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper less popular than I had assumed. Hickenlooper is a former brewpub owner and mayor of Denver who has a very appealing personality. But his job approval is only 47%, with 43% disapproving, and he leads...
By Michael Barone | 06/13/13 02:45 PM
The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a proposed House amendment to the defense authorization bill which would require, in the words of its sponsor, Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), “the Armed Forces to accommodate ‘actions and speech’ reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or...
By Michael Barone | 06/13/13 02:10 PM
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who seems like a nice person, got caught making a huge historical mistake; he said George Wallace, the Alabama Governor who defied a desegregation order 50 years ago, was a Republican. Nope. He was a Democrat and ran in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1964, 1972...
By Michael Barone | 06/12/13 05:25 PM
That’s the title of a very interesting article by Michael Hirsch in The Daily Beast/Newsweek. The don’t-be-evil folks at Google and the kids at Facebook won’t like it, since they don’t like to be associated with the National Security Agency surveillance programs. But they’re all...
By Michael Barone | 06/12/13 03:40 PM
That’s the finding of TaxProf blogger Robert Anderson, who went through the records and reports that in the 2012 presidential campaign, 84 percent of contributions to major party nominees went to Barack Obama and 16 percent to Mitt Romney. No government lawyers at the National Labor Relations...
By Michael Barone | 06/11/13 06:35 PM
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." That's what Secretary of State Henry Stimson said to explain why he shut down the government's cryptanalysis operations in 1929. Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security Agency surveillance projects to Britain's Guardian, evidently feels the same...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
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