It’s hard not to look into the past and compare the current administration with other major Democratic administrations, and there seem to be four camps that people are falling into with their Obama comparisons:  there are the Carter comparisons, the Clinton comparisons, the Johnson Comparisons and...

For those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, his State of the Union was a return to the form that we all knew him in during the election.  The Obama of promises!  Of hope!  And so on.  The problem for those whose support he had a year ago, though, is that we’ve realize that he can’t do...

Usually, the Supreme Court hears 100 cases a year.  Of those, we might hear in the news about one or two of them.  One of the cases this year was Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.  It sounds boring in principle:  A non-profit organization tried to release a documentary against Hillary...

It’s like I’m writing for the Onion.  Apparently, Republicans are in a tizzy over Harry Reid being a racist.  I’ll explain:  A book that’s hitting the shelves today called Game Change quotes Harry Reid as saying in 2008 that Obama could have won the election because he was...

There are a number of problems with having a single party control both the White House and Congress.  Especially when that one party also holds filibuster-proof control of the Senate, and essentially has free reign to do whatever they please. And it seems that the Republicans, who, after November of 2008,...

The immediate, massive grassroots populist uprisings against any and all Obama policies has been kind of startling to the outside observer, particularly in the level of ferocity with which he’s been attacked.  A lot of the attacks come from legitimate places – after all, there is plenty of...

Health care is the debate of the hour, so let’s look into how it’ll effect the 2012 election: For one thing, there isn’t anything close to a consensus as to how to handle the health care system.  As it stands right now, the amount Americans spend on health care is 16% of our GDP. ...

Something we haven’t seen much during the Bush era is turncoating.  We haven’t seen many senators or representatives who have been willing to change their positions away from the party line or, perhaps turn away from their party all together. Until now. Just this past year, Arlen Specter,...

Ok, so I know this site is about the 2012 election, but let’s look at 2010 for a second.  There’s a lot at stake in 2010, and it could potentially effect the outcome of 2012.  So, let’s see what’s happening: -36 Senator seats are up for grabs, though two of them aren’t...

Probably the most dangerous area any American President can tread in is foreign policy.  President Obama has come into the White House at a dangerous time in the nations history, inheriting two wars and an increasingly dangerous multipolar world.  Obama’s doctrine has been to reject the Bush Era...