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Howard Fineman Howard Fineman is Newsweek’s Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. Read More»From Wikipedia |
For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan.
I have to partially disagree with my esteemed colleague Howard Fineman . Howard writes that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's surprisingly narrow re-election victory shows that Americans
Maybe I'm crazy, or just jealous, but my favorite—and I think most emblematic—contest this Election Day was the mayor's race in New York City. Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, despite spending more than $100 million of his own money, ended up in the race of his life against a relative unknown named William Thompson. What does that have to do with Republican victories in the governor's race in Virginia and New Jersey? Well, everything. Americans (and certainly those few who voted in this off year) are still mad at the Big Boys, whether they are in Washington or on Wall Street, or, in the case of New York City, down at City Hall.
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Election Day 2009 was not a repudiation of Barack Obama but it sure wasn't a vote of confidence, either. Exit polls in Virginia and New Jersey showed that few than 40 percent of voters factored the president per se into their polling booth equation. But the deep skepticism that the (shrunken)
This election was as much about who didn't show up as who did. Obama World took the day off. As a result, the races in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York were largely left to the old school—older white folks—and they yanked the results back in their own (generally conservative) direction. If this
candidate we thought we saw? ( Click here to follow Howard Fineman ). HBO's documentary By the People makes its debut Tuesday no sure things in life, especially in politics. Howard Fineman is also the author of The Thirteen American Arguments
as you know," he said. ( Click here to follow Howard Fineman ) On Mount Olympus in Greece there were many gods, but on Mount a man must either be an anvil or a hammer." Howard Fineman is also the author of The Thirteen American Arguments
After its modestly successful way-way-out-of-town tryout in Hong Kong, The Sarah Palin Show is getting ready to hit the U.S.A. next month. To coincide with the release of her ghost-assisted book, Going Rogue , Palin and her advisers are planning a careful TV and Web rollout in mid November, to be
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