Toledo, Ohio Mayor Says Stop Bashing China
For most mayors, having both presidential candidates campaigning in your town or city at the same time is cause for excitement. But for Mayor Michael Bell of Toledo, Ohio, it brought some mixed...
View ArticleThe Seven Ohio Voters Who Will Determine the Election
Lake County, Ohio has become a good bellwether of how the swing state will vote, and thus, is also a fairly good predictor of presidential elections. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Lake...
View ArticleThe Most Important State in the Country
How important is Ohio? Though not as big as Florida, and with lower voter turnouts than Wisconsin, Ohio has been on the winning side of every presidential election since 1964. With its geographic and...
View ArticleSeven Ohio Voters: From Liberal to Conservative and Everything in Between
All week, The Takeaway is speaking with voters from a swing county a crucial swing state: Lake County, Ohio. From liberal to conservative, from a 21-year-old student to a 79-year-old great-grandfather,...
View ArticleRomney Lays Out Foreign Policy in Virginia
Speaking at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, Republic presidential nominee Mitt Romney gave a key foreign policy address Monday afternoon. His focus was primarily on the Middle...
View ArticleLake County Ohio: Voters Discuss The Presidential Election
All this week we've been hearing from a panel of seven voters in Lake County, Ohio. John Hockenberry spent time there over the weekend to get a better sense of what matters to the people in this swing...
View ArticleHas Obama Narrowed Our Discussion of Race?
Hermene Hartman was an enthusiastic supporter of President Obama in 2008. In fact her magazine, N’DIGO, was the first to publish his image on its cover back in 1997. Since then, her enthusiasm has...
View ArticleHow Race Factors Into Our Political Leanings
Republican Sen. Scott Brown faced off against his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, in the third debate last night in Massachusetts. Their race for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts is very...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Budget Creates Friction in Congressional Race
The Paul Ryan budget may have sprung the Republican vice presidential candidate to national prominence, but it is not playing out as well in local races throughout the country. The plan, also named,...
View ArticleBiden and Ryan Spar in First and Only Vice Presidential Debate
Governor Romney was largely seen as the winner of last week’s presidential debate, as he gave a confident, direct, and what some called a “presidential” performance. He subsequently gained a...
View ArticleCandidates Request No Follow-Ups in Town-Hall Style Debate
As the candidates prepare to face off again tonight in the second presidential debate, there is actually something the two men finally agree on: the format. Tonight's debate at Hofstra University is...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Messaging Problem
Back in 2008, political commentators and voters extolled then-candidate Barack Obama communications skills. From "A More Perfect Union" at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, to his election...
View ArticleRecapping the Second Presidential Debate
Two weeks ago, conservatives and liberals alike declared Governor Romney the winner of the last presidential debate, as pundits claimed he portrayed strength and confidence in the face of a timid and...
View ArticleBlack Pastors Campaign Against Obama's Support of Gay Marriage
President Obama has a wide base of support among African Americans, but a group of conservative black pastors are coming out in opposition to Barack Obama in response to his endorsement of gay...
View ArticleCan the Government Create Jobs?
In Tuesday night’s presidential debate there was much discussion about job creation, but it was the comments of one of our independent voters in Ohio, Dan Starr, that really set a lot of listeners off....
View ArticleNegative Campaigns and Big Money: Election Season in the Ancient World
In a recent edition of The New Yorker, staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore chronicled the rise of political consulting and the negative campaign. Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter founded...
View ArticlePennsylvania Takes a Back Seat in the Swing State Frenzy
Battleground states can make or break a candidate’s election. In the clamor for electoral votes, the campaigns regularly unleash a barrage of ads, flooding mailboxes and TV screens, while the...
View ArticleObama and Romney Set Aside Campaign for Comedy
Last night, President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney set aside their contentious campaign for comedy. The candidates traded jokes at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, and then President...
View ArticleObama and Romney Prepare for Debate in Boca Raton, Epicenter of Financial...
In 1994, a group of young J.P. Morgan bankers met for a weekend retreat in the South Florida city of Boca Raton. As Gillian Tett, assistant editor of The Financial Times, details in her book "Fool’s...
View ArticleFact-Checking the Foreign Policy Debate
In 2008, foreign policy was widely considered then-Senator Barack Obama weakness. Obama had spent less than four years in federal office before his foreign policy debate with war veteran and ranking...
View ArticleObama and Romney Debate Foreign Policy
With election day just two weeks away, Americans tuned in on Monday to watch the third and final presidential debate, which focused on foreign policy.In a recent poll in three battleground states,...
View ArticleKey and Peele on Politics, Comedy, and President Obama's Endorsement
When it comes to presidential politics, the campaign season is often the comedy gift that keeps on giving. From The Daily Show to The Colbert Report to Saturday Night Live, the election season provides...
View ArticleCredit for Northeast Ohio's Economic Boom Not a Given for Obama
The race for the White House is tight in Ohio, with President Barack Obama holding a slight lead in the state that some pollsters say holds the key to the presidency. It’s still a toss-up in the...
View ArticleMan with Down Syndrome Responds to Ann Coulter's Use of 'Retard'
During this past Monday’s presidential debate, political commentator Ann Coulter tweeted: “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.” Her choice of words in referencing...
View ArticleErrol Morris Gives Us 'Eleven Excellent Reasons Not to Vote'
American exceptionalism resounds through both the Republican and Democratic campaigns this year, and Americans are unique — in that only about half of us vote in presidential elections. Documentary...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy's Election Impact
The 2012 election is just six days away, and voters in swing states like Virginia, Pennsylvania, and even as far west as Ohio are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy. Flooding and felled trees continue...
View ArticleVoting in a Disaster Area
When Hurricane Sandy hit land earlier this week, millions of people were left without electricity, miles of roads were left clogged with debris, and thousands of homes were either flooded or ripped...
View ArticleSenate Races to Watch: Massachusetts and Virginia
As election day quickly approaches, the nation’s attention has been glued to Governor Romney, President Obama, and most recently Hurricane Sandy. But this November, contentious races in the Senate will...
View ArticleThe Popular Vote and the Electoral College
With just four days to go until the 2012 presidential election, we're all watching the polls. At the heart of the polling system is the daily tracking poll, designed to gauge the mood of the populace....
View ArticleSenate Races to Watch: Connecticut and Missouri
As Senate races tighten around the country, we’re back on their trail today to take a look at the fight for seats in two key states: Connecticut and Missouri.In Connecticut, Republican Linda McMahon...
View ArticleConfusion in Florida's Early Voting
In Florida, there has been some confusion and a little chaos over early voting in Miami-Dade County. Yesterday, voters lined up outside the Miami Dade elections office in Doral. They'd been told...
View ArticleDisplaced New Jersey Voters Allowed to Vote by Fax, Email
Over the weekend, it was announced that any New Jersey voter displaced from their primary residence because of the storm will be considered an "overseas voter" and can apply for an absentee ballot by...
View ArticleLaughing at Election Year Politics with Lizz Winstead
Negative ads, the cynical press, and a disenchanted electorate. All those negative ads. The election season would be downright depressing, if not for the laughs. When The Daily Show premiered 16 years...
View ArticleIt's Time for Independents to Choose
For months, the Takeaway has been checking in with independents and undecideds, seeing where their crucial votes will land. They've seen the political landscape shift with each ad, each debate, and...
View ArticleSenate Races to Watch: Indiana and Wisconsin
The battle for the Senate will come to a close tomorrow, but before it does, The Takeaway is taking a look at two of the closest races in the nation. Indiana, normally a reliably Republican state,...
View ArticleWhich Party Will Control the Senate?
The president and his opponent are receiving most of America’s attention today. But there are crucial Senate races unfolding across the country with the power to swing control in either...
View ArticleCan Superstition Predict Presidential Elections?
So many dollars, so many votes, so much punditry. But does any of it really matter? It all just comes down to luck, anyway. You can have your polling, Nate Silver. And you can stuff your siren, Matt...
View ArticleThe Election's $3 Billion Price Tag
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan, independent research group that tracks money in campaigns and elections, as of October 17, 2012, President Obama's campaign had spent...
View ArticleGoogle versus Pollsters: Who's Right?
Throughout the day, voters will be polled as they exit their voting stations. But how seriously should we be taking those polls? Isn’t there a more accurate measurement of the electorate than a few...
View ArticleThe Huge Ballot Measures You Forgot Existed
The focus today, and late Tuesday night, is on the presidential race. But farther down the ticket is often where we find the greater impact —representatives, judges, and statewide ballot measures.The...
View ArticleBoiling Down the Past Four Years
We're finally here! The Takeaway has spent countless hours covering this campaign and election, and as we hunker down for a long week of coverage, we wanted to bring you a look back at the last four...
View ArticleReacting to Election Results
The results are in with significant victories for Obama, Senate Democrats, marijuana legalization advocates, and gay marriage supporters, but what’s next for the country? The Takeaway's panel of...
View ArticleDavid Frum on Yesterday's Election
This election will be examined for years to come by strategists and historians. While an incumbent president can usually rely on running on a successful record and the presidency itself, some say that...
View ArticleObama Wins a Second Term
President Obama secured a second term last night after an emotional and hard-fought campaign that enabled him to sweep nearly all of the swing states, including Virginia and Ohio. Obama thanked Romney...
View ArticleFlorida Presidential Outcome Remains Undecided
The only thing sure about Florida politics is that it's rarely a sure thing. By 8 a.m. this morning, Florida was still too close to call. The closeness of the presidential race in Florida is...
View ArticleThe Identity of the Republican Party
The Republicans lost two Senate races, those in Missouri and Indiana, that they probably should have won. What does this say about the tactics, strategy, and identity of the Republican Party? Julian...
View ArticleThe President's Next Four Years
Todd Zwillich, our Washington correspondent, was in the heart of the action last night at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago. The last time Renee Amore and Hermene Hartman spoke, Renee, who is...
View ArticleThe Looming Crisis of the Fiscal Cliff
The markets are performing their own cliff act today reacting to the political results. But with the election behind us, squarely in front of the global economy is the question of whether the U.S....
View ArticleAfter the Election Comes the Fiscal Cliff
With the presidential campaign season coming to an end, the media is desperately looking for something else to endlessly obsess over. Luckily, we'll have to look no further than the so-called “fiscal...
View ArticleThe World Has Their Say About the 2012 Election
In 2008, the election of Barack Obama was a historic moment not only in the United States, but around the world. This became apparent when, less than a year into his presidency, President Obama was...
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