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March 2016

March 04, 2016

Romney’s plan to stop Trump

Mitt Romney is emerging as the point man in the Republican party's effort to stop...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Mitt Romney won’t run

Though some polls showed that he would be a front-runner and though he has been...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Romney in exile

Just a couple of weeks ago, Republicans were hailing Mitt Romney as the man who...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

Debate night

Tonight is the second of the presidential candidate debates, this one in a "town hall"...

October 15, 2012

Is Romney going soft on abortion?

Mitt Romney, as expected, seems to be tacking towards the center in an effort to...

October 09, 2012

Constructivist politics

Postmodernists, who believe that truth is relative, reject such retro concepts as logic, evidence, and...

October 09, 2012

Post-debate poll

Romney Narrows Vote Gap After Historic Debate Win.

October 04, 2012

Judge the debate

Read our live-blog commentary, below. It was a cool exercise, interacting with each other and...

October 03, 2012

In which we live blog the debate

Greetings, all of you Cranachers of every political persuasion. In this experiment in real-time online...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Report from a battleground state

We live in Virginia, which has been named a battleground state, a crucial source of...

September 27, 2012

The coming Obama landslide

It looks bad for Romney. Very, very bad. More than likely, it's not even going...

September 25, 2012

Romney’s taxes

Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something...

September 24, 2012

The 47%

As you have probably heard, Mitt Romney was secretly recorded at a fundraiser saying this:...

September 14, 2012

The Empathy Gap

Why does Obama still lead Romney in the polls, despite the dismal state of the...

September 13, 2012

Democrats running as if Mitt Romney were president

The Democratic National Convention was full of angst about how "middle class" Americans are having...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Romney’s big night

The Republican convention--after a bunch of testimonials from Olympic athletes, businesses saved by Bain Capital,...

August 23, 2012

The Akin fiasco

So Todd Akin, a six-term Congressman running for the Senate in Missouri, defended his belief...

August 21, 2012

Mitt Romney, when he was a pastor

Mormons do not have ordained clergy, as such, but lay people step into that role...

August 11, 2012

Romney picks Paul Ryan

Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his vice-presidential running-mate. Ryan is...

August 10, 2012

Obama is winning

Bad news for Republican in the electoral college: *** Romney leads in CO, but Obama’s...

August 07, 2012

Romney’s speech in Poland

To illustrate the point of the "gaffe" post, what did you learn from media coverage...

August 02, 2012

Mitt Romney’s Olympic event

Mitt Romney not only organized the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he has a horse...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

Romney as Batman villain

What happens when pop culture addicts run your campaign: According to Paul Bedard at The...

July 05, 2012

Parade politics

We went to the 4th of July parade here in our small northern Virginia town. ...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Romney’s Vice-Presidential pick?

If we are going to do our traditional "guess the vice-president" game, we'd better hurry,...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

What would Romney do?

In raising the question why both campaigns are ignoring Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts,...

May 28, 2012

What both parties don’t want to talk about

As the Mitt Romney campaign hails his business experience and as the Obama campaign demonizes...

May 22, 2012

To Bain, or not to Bain?

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is a rising star in the Democratic...

May 21, 2012

Be skeptical about political journalism

The New York Times broke a shocking story: Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied...

May 11, 2012

So what happened while this blog was down?

This blog was knocked out of the worldwide web for a whole week due to...