Category Archives: Politics / Policy

Matthew Dowd: Mom 4 Prez

Matthew Dowd was top campaign strategist for the Bush-Cheney reëlection in 2004 and went on to lead Schwarzenegger’s winning gubernatorial bid two years later in California; he hasn’t worked a campaign in the five years following those two high-profile victories. What would get him back in the game? A woman for president——who isn’t Hillary Clinton.

RE: ‘Public support’ for the 2010 Tax Compromise

So in spite of the headlines, evidence doesn’t support the idea that most Americans are happy with the bill the Senate passed. It suggests that with stagnant wages and an uncertain labor market, poor and working Americans are willing to accept a ballooning national debt in exchange for the tax relief they need today.