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[Obama had a] decisive Electoral College win of at least 303 votes and more than half the popular vote with a 2.5 million margin, while the Republicans lost three Senate seats...It points to an exacerbation of partisan voting and no new coalition building.
November 7, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Government Executive
They'll defer action [on the budget] for as long as they think they can get away with it... It could be six months. It could be three months.
October 13, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Kansas City Star
Biden did what Democrats wanted Obama to do in the first debate. Biden wins on both style/presentation and the strength and truth value of his arguments with Ryan. Now the responsibility shifts once again to the president. But I suspect he will gain a modest lead before the second debate.
October 11, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Politico
As best we can tell [the Romney campaign] really is trying to return the campaign debate to a referendum on President Obama and the performance of the economy.
September 13, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Voice of America
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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Web Chat: National Conventions

September 5, 2012
[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
The Election and the Future

September 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
The Romney campaign has, as is strikingly evident at the Tampa convention, broken new ground in its brazen and cynical disregard for the truth…[Romney and Ryan] are counting on a mainstream press, fearful of being charged with partisan bias, of shrinking from their responsibility to report the truth.
August 31, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, New York Times
…[T]he idea [for Republicans] was to take the country's full faith and credit hostage in order to achieve immediate cuts and discretionary domestic spending at a time the economy was not yet back into a self-sustaining recovery. It's sort of Econ 101. That is in how you proceed. They didn't get much in the way of spending cuts, but they did manage to decrease the confidence in the economy.
August 6, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Diane Rehm Show
Does Journalistic "Balance" Hurt America?: A Q&A with Thomas Mann

July 31, 2012, Trudy Lieberman and Thomas E. Mann
Five Delusions About Our Broken Politics

June 13, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
It's gotten much worse, and it’s not just the Congress, it’s the whole American political system. We have incentives now for a political party, in this case the Republican opposition party, to do whatever it can to destroy the president.
June 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Political Division and Dysfunction in Congress

June 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
@ Brookings Podcast: Political Dysfunction is “Even Worse Than It Looks”

May 18, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
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America’s Dysfunctional Politics: Why Now? What Can We Do About It?

May 9, 2012
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Campaign 2012: The Future of Health Care

May 4, 2012
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The Ugly Truth about the Ugly Politics of Health Care

May 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans are the Problem

April 27, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
Prague Declaration on Governance and Anti-Corruption

March 21, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Stephen M. Davis, Nell Minow and Norm Ornstein
Web Chat: Analyzing Super Tuesday’s Results

March 7, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
Campaign Finance in the 2012 Elections: The Rise of Super PACs

March 1, 2012
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Obama and Super PACs in the 2012 Election

February 7, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
State of the Union 2012: Politics and Policy

January 25, 2012
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