Susan Estrich
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The mandate to raise taxes on the “rich”Nov 14, 2012 4:00 pm - Within days of winning the election, President Obama announced that his victory gave him a mandate to raise taxes on the “rich.” Come again? This was a two-and-a-half-po...
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Take twoNov 12, 2012 4:00 am - Now that the election is over, and President Obama has returned to Washington to try to turn all the rhetoric about working together into something real, Republicans and...
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The lure of OhioNov 01, 2012 12:06 pm - Don’t get me wrong. Like most Americans, politics was the last thing on my mind as I waited to hear from my daughter, who lost power and cell service Monday night, along...
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World Series of politicsOct 23, 2012 5:00 am - Who are these undecided voters? The one thing that seems clear is that there aren’t many of them. The harder question is how anyone who really does plan to vote could st...
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Whole binders full of women?Oct 19, 2012 5:00 am - Everybody is writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate. True enough. On Tuesday, the president took the s...
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Smokin’ Joe at the debateOct 16, 2012 5:00 am - I turned off the television the minute the vice presidential debate was over. I don’t care what the armies of talking heads have to say. I’ve been there — for some of th...
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The mother’s milk of politicsOct 12, 2012 5:00 am - ...
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The curse of incumbencyOct 08, 2012 5:00 am - Walter Mondale won his first debate against Ronald Reagan in 1980. John Kerry won his first debate against George W. Bush. Mitt Romney won his first debate against Barac...
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Polls don’t voteOct 04, 2012 5:00 am - “Polls don’t vote. People vote.” That’s what Vice President Walter Mondale used to say at every stop in the closing days of the campaign. The only problem, of course, i...
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The femininity factorOct 01, 2012 5:00 am - Are Republican women politicians more “feminine” than Democratic women politicians? That’s the conclusion of a new study by UCLA researchers, who found that Republican w...