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From Bad Cop to Good Cop: The Challenge of Security Sector Reform in Egypt

November 19, 2012, Omar Ashour
What the Presidential Campaigns Reveal about Obama's and Romney’s Leadership Styles

October 3, 2012
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Not All Deficit Reduction is Made Equal: Three Tips For Obama’s Second Term

October 2, 2012, William A. Galston
Romney’s Miserable Campaign Has One Last Chance

September 25, 2012, William A. Galston
Mitt Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Campaign

September 14, 2012, William A. Galston
Romney and Obama: The Presidential Candidates’ Solutions to Making College More Affordable

September 7, 2012, Beth Akers
Are the Political Conventions Still Relevant?

September 7, 2012, William A. Galston and Thomas E. Mann
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The Republican and Democratic Conventions – Who Came Out Ahead?

September 7, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and William A. Galston
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Bill Clinton was born into a poor, white family in a small town...There's nothing in Obama's background that has given him anything like the visceral understanding of that slice of America that Bill Clinton has in his bones, just because he grew up with it.
September 6, 2012, William A. Galston, Bloomberg
What [President Obama] now has to propose is there's still hope for change. That it's not too late to invest in him for change. And that's a tough sell.
September 6, 2012, Jonathan Rauch, CBS News
Web Chat: National Conventions

September 5, 2012
Clinton Can Bring Back Obama's Hope

September 5, 2012, John Hudak
[Obama's] speech in 2004 and campaign in 2008 were wildly unrealistic in promising a post-partisan future... Our parties are ideologically polarized and intensely tribal.
September 5, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Washington Times
We rarely see protests [within the Democratic Party]. They have much more serious and pragmatic delegates who are in the game for winning, not for ideologically purity...I don’t know if we’d say the same thing about the Republican Party today, given that it does have a strong libertarian wing to it.
September 4, 2012, Sarah A. Binder, Washington Times
He [President Obama] understands that what he was doing four years ago was more pertinent to the challenges of 2008... Like any successful politician, he has made some adjustments.
September 4, 2012, William A. Galston, The Telegraph
Reflections on the Republican National Convention

August 31, 2012, Darrell M. West
Truth-Telling a Casualty in the Presidential Campaign

August 31, 2012, Philip A. Wallach
[Romney's acceptance speech was] exactly the wrong speech. It was a 'who am I,' when what the electorate needed from him was a 'what I will do', address.
August 31, 2012, Stephen Hess, Bloomberg
Missouri Loves Company: Romney’s Tightrope Act at the GOP Convention

August 27, 2012, John Hudak
The old rule-of-thumb was that to win the nomination you first win your base and then move to the middle. Both Obama and Romney are being forced to play it closer to their bases than in the past.
August 24, 2012, Stephen Hess, The Associated Press
Does Mitt Romney Have a “Religion Problem”?

May 16, 2012, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael Henderson
The Political Geography of Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri: Battlegrounds in the Heartland

October 10, 2008, William H. Frey and Ruy Teixeira
The Political Geography of Virginia and Florida: Bookends of the New South

October 10, 2008, William H. Frey and Ruy Teixeira
The McCain Paradox

September 5, 2008, William A. Galston
Palin's Impact On Presidential Race Analyzed

September 5, 2008, E.J. Dionne, Jr.