OPINION
December 17, 2012
By Matthew Dowd and M. Denise Dowd
“Of all the human heart endures, how small the part laws or kings cause or cure” --Samuel Johnson
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COMMON SENSE
December 4, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
The Hampton Roads area of Virginia has some advice for Washington about the fiscal cliff: Stop acting like stubborn children and just cut a deal.
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COMMON SENSE
November 3, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
Not many hours are left until we close the chapter of the long, hard-fought 2012 presidential election and open the first chapter of the 2016 presidential primaries. Here’s one prediction I am very confident in making: Those next primaries are likely to start within hours or days of Tuesday.
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COMMON SENSE
October 30, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
To paraphrase the movie Apollo 13 , “Election, we have a problem.” The fury and damage done by Hurricane Sandy, suddenly a key player in this election, has thrown a total monkey wrench in the trajectory of the presidential campaign. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families affected by Sandy--and with the media and folks who still want to get a read on this race.
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COMMON SENSE
October 28, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
For more than 230 years we have called ourselves the United States of America, but we are fast becoming the Divided States of America.
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COMMON SENSE
October 16, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
Mel Gibson played a chauvinistic advertising executive in the 2000 movie What Women Want who had an accident that gave him the power to hear women’s thoughts and feelings. I don’t have that power, but I am going to speculate on what many women might want in a man--in this election cycle and more broadly.
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COMMON SENSE
October 2, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
As I watched my hometown Detroit Tigers clinch their division last night (Awesome!), I noticed the two teams with different colored Sox were not making the playoffs and basically ending a very disappointing season. The Chicago White Sox (President Obama’s team) and the Boston Red Sox (Gov. Romney’s team) were ending their year not meeting expectations and underperforming. The hometown teams seem to perfectly represent two unelectable candidates running against each other, though in this case they are the only teams in the playoffs, so one will win.
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COMMON SENSE
September 28, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
For Mitt Romney to have a shot at winning in November, his campaign needs to admit the reality that he's behind and correct course by having him focus on the three C's: competence, compassion, and connection.
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COMMON SENSE
September 23, 2012
By Matthew Dowd
Joseph Campbell, the late philosopher author, and lecturer who often spoke about the power and importance of myth, once said, “Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
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COMMON SENSE
September 19, 2012
Presidential campaigns aren’t decided on the last day of a race. They are decided in all the days and moments leading up to Election Day. They turn on the candidate who best put together a lead going into the final voting in November, and who won or lost the important moments along the way.
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