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Choosing to govern - before 2014

...majority. Even if both chambers are comfortably blue in 2015, the nation will remain sharply divided, with a presidential contest gearing up.And beyond politics, on many of the biggest challenges you're going to need ideas from Column A and...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-11/choosing-govern-201
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OTHER OPINION: Campaign 2012

Foreign policy has played a marginal role so far in the Republican presidential contest, squeezed to the side during debates focused on the U.S. economy and by social issues such as immigration. What the candidates...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-11-25/other-opinion-campa
Other Opinion
Picturing an afterlife for Republican also-rans

WASHINGTON - To the victors go the spoils. Still, in the Democratic presidential contest four years ago, the losers did pretty well.Joe Biden is vice president and Hillary Clinton is secretary of state. Chris Dodd...

http://brainerddispatch.com/node/15804
Other Opinion
A gulp of humble pundit pie

...Probably the most useful bit of TV commentary I did in 2011 was to remind viewers how little I know. The Republican presidential contest in Iowa, for example, has been dominated by volatility. I've noted many times that the people who will determine...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-12-28/gulp-humble-pundit-pie
Columnists
Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney

...in one cycle or two cycles is fooling themselves." Tea party activists across the country entered their first presidential contest this year expecting to hold major sway over the Republican race following a 2010 congressional election year in...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2012-02-06/tea-party-warming-or-resig
Political
How to defuse the political peril of surging gas prices

...suburbs and exurbs are hit hardest - and these are the the areas that disproportionately account for swing voters in presidential contests. Second, gas prices tend to surge sharply in states that are critical electoral battlegrounds, especially in...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-02-21/how-defuse-political-p
Columnists
Cain not likely to be the next Ike

...office. Priebus, who has become good at handling press queries and stays studiously neutral in his party's presidential contest, seemed to think it ludicrous to compare the pizza-chain executive and motivational speaker to Ike, the Supreme...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-11-13/cain-not-likely-be-nex
Columnists
Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states

...AP) - Republican Rick Santorum is planning some last-minute campaigning in each of the three states holding presidential contests Tuesday. The former Pennsylvania senator is set for a morning rally in deeply conservative Colorado Springs...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2012-02-07/looking-reset-campaign-san
Political
A brokered Republican convention? Keep dreaming

...talk of a brokered convention or a late-entering candidate will reach a crescendo.To be sure, the Republican presidential contest could be in shambles. If Romney then loses Ohio the following week, he's a severely - as he might put it...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-02-27/brokered-republican-co
Columnists
Ventura sends mixed signals on presidential aspirations

...la-la land.'' In a separate interview with WCCO Radio on Tuesday, Ventura sent a different signal about the presidential contest. ''I'm the natural candidate to do it, but I don't want to do it. You gotta want the job. I don't want...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102799/new_1027990024.shtml
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