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Union Voters and Democrats

Top Democratic and union leaders play host this week to prospective 2012 Congressional candidates, highlighting labor’s status as a critical cog in progressive campaigns. Some…

The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency

The Democratic Party’s 1988 presidential defeat demonstrated that the party’s problems would not disappear, as many had hoped, once Ronald Reagan left the White House….

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The Bill Clinton and DLC Model For Reinventing the Republican Party

The Conservative Political Action Conference, a kind of annual camp meeting for the American right, opens in Washington today amid controversy over who’s in the…

Stop the Debt!

Writing for Politico, Will Marshall argues that President Obama should counter the Republican’s proposal of balancing the federal budget in 10 years with an achievable…

Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Show the Way Toward a Grand Bargain

Writing for the Daily Beast, Will Marshall argues that Obama is in a strong position to challenge the new Congress to pass a fiscal grand…

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“Cut and Invest” vs. Austerity

President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…

Why the GOP Deserves to Lose

Will Marshall, in The Washington Monthly, argues why Republican Party extremism is undeserving of the American public’s support. Whatever happens, it’s a safe bet the…

Why Young People Overwhelmingly Support Obama (Hint: It’s in the Jobs.)

On Sunday Mitt Romney told an Ohio crowd that he couldn’t understand why a “college kid” would vote for Obama. He said Obama was spending…

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The Restless Independents: Can Obama Win Them Back?
National Press Club, Washington DC