Susan Estrich
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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...
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Looking forward, not backSep 26, 2012 12:37 pm - As I write this, Jews across the world are preparing for the holiest day of the year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the day on which we seek forgivenes...
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Refusing to undo the damageSep 24, 2012 5:00 am - I used to joke that there was no hat that Michael Dukakis could have put on in a school or hospital that would have doomed his campaign the way that helmet did (with the...
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Forward? Not this raceSep 07, 2012 5:00 am - In backgrounding reporters in advance of the Democratic convention, organizers reportedly stressed that the tone in Charlotte would be much more optimistic than that in ...
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Paul Ryan’s speech bubbleAug 31, 2012 10:51 am - The commentators may be raving, but if you ask me, they’re living in a bubble — along with the candidate. President Obama: Bad. Republicans: Good. My mother: My hero. Sm...
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The platform of the partyAug 27, 2012 5:00 am - A constitutional prohibition on abortion, even in cases of rape and incest? No federal funds for universities that allow undocumented students to pay the same tuition as...
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“Legitimate rape”Aug 22, 2012 10:36 am - Rep. Todd Akin is staying in the Missouri Senate race, notwithstanding the calls of many fellow Republicans that he step aside after flaunting his ignorance about anatom...
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Looking to the time of no ‘women’s day’Aug 13, 2012 9:51 am - President Obama was in Colorado last Wednesday trying to solidify his lead among women, appearing at rallies with Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who made headl...
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Money matters, but it’s not everythingAug 09, 2012 5:00 am - News alert: Mitt Romney is raising a lot of money. A whole lot. So much that in the past three months, he’s been outraising the incumbent president, which is no easy fea...