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Channeling the Gipper
A democratic president, you'd think, would stick to Franklin D. Roosevelt or Jack Kennedy as role models. Not Barack Obama. As he faces tough times—economically and politically—I am told that he and his advisers are turning to an unusual source for inspiration: Ronald Reagan. Looking back, it shouldn't be a total surprise. On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama said nice things about the Gipper. Reagan, Obama said, "tapped into what people were already feeling, which was: we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to a sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing." ( Click here to follow Howard Fineman ).
November 21, 2009 | Voices - Howard Fineman | By Howard FinemanNew York Mayor: Not Bad News at All for Obama
newsweek.com/id/40211';placeAd=99,'video';] I have to partially disagree with my esteemed colleague Howard Fineman. Howard writes that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's surprisingly narrow re-election victory shows that Americans
November 04, 2009 | By Ben AdlerElection 2009: Rejecting the Big Boys, Again
Maybe I'm crazy, or just jealous, but my favorite—and I think most emblematic—contest this Election Day was the mayor's race in New York City. Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, despite spending more than $100 million of his own money, ended up in the race of his life against a relative unknown named William Thompson. What does that have to do with Republican victories in the governor's race in Virginia and New Jersey? Well, everything. Americans (and certainly those few who voted in this off year) are still mad at the Big Boys, whether they are in Washington or on Wall Street, or, in the case of New York City, down at City Hall.
November 04, 2009 | Barack Obama|Michael Bloomberg|2009 Elections | By Howard FinemanElection Results Show Lack of Confidence in Obama
November 04, 2009 | Barack Obama|Corzine|Chris Christie|Bob McDonnell|2009 Elections | By Howard FinemanVa. and N.J. Elections: Obama World Stayed Home
This election was as much about who didn't show up as who did. Obama World took the day off. As a result, the races in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York were largely left to the old school—older white folks—and they yanked the results back in their own (generally conservative) direction. If this was a rebellion we were watching, as some Republicans suggested, it was a rebellion of an antique America—in both the literal and figurative sense—against the dawn of a demographically and perhaps philosophically new country. I don't have much exit-poll data in hand (they are very tight with such things over here at NBC, where I am camped out), but from what I can glean, the minority turnout in Virginia and New Jersey was relatively light—certainly compared with the tsunami of 2008. (There are few persons of color in the North Country of New York state, where a House special election also drew attention.)
November 04, 2009 | Corzine|Chris Christie|Creigh Deeds|Bob McDonnell|Austan Goolsbee|2009 Elections | By Howard FinemanObama, the Movies
A year after he was elected, President Barack Obama faces a stern test: living up to the memories of his own campaign. Two movies and a book out this week recount that saga and implicitly pose some questions: Whatever happened to the guy who seemed so dazzling, confident, and convincing? Why has a campaign so laser-focused become a presidency that sometimes seems all but overrun by its own ambitious agenda? And did we really know the candidate we thought we saw? (Click here to follow Howard Fineman). (Article continued below...)
November 02, 2009 | Voices - Howard Fineman | By Howard FinemanWhat’s So Hot About Snowe?
"There she is, the Party of One!" cried Sen. Barbara Mikulski when she saw Sen. Olympia Snowe outside the Senate chamber last week. Mikulski, in a wheel-chair because of a broken ankle, rolled closer to the object of her praise. "She is belle of the ball, because she has got so much on the ball!" Snowe gave an embarrassed nod. Sen. John Kerry hurried by, but stopped himself long enough to bestow upon Snowe a lordly embrace. "O, we love her!" he announced. Sen. Tom Carper testified to her brilliance. "Olympia's terrific, as you know," he said. ( Click here to follow Howard Fineman )
October 24, 2009 | Voices - Howard Fineman | By Howard FinemanThe Sarah Palin Show. First Stop: Oprah.
After its modestly successful way-way-out-of-town tryout in Hong Kong, The Sarah Palin Show is getting ready to hit the U.S.A. next month. To coincide with the release of her ghost-assisted book, Going Rogue , Palin and her advisers are planning a careful TV and Web rollout in mid November, to be followed by paid speeches to business, civic, and college groups. Assembled with the advice of her Washington lawyer, Bob Barnett, and her speech agency, Washington Speakers Bureau, Palin's junket will go light on the free-ranging, traditional hard-news venues and heavy on personality: one major stop will be Oprah.
October 20, 2009 | Sarah Palin | By Howard FinemanObama Made Arlen Specter Big Promises for Switching Parties. Now, Specter Wants Him To Pay Up
Barack Obama and Ed Rendell were delighted when they convinced Sen. Arlen Specter to switch parties earlier this year. But now that coup falls into the category of "be careful what you wish for," because the president and the governor of Pennyslvania have a problem on their hands: Arlen Specter. Here's the problem: Specter is up for reelection next year, and he was promised the full campaign backing of Obama and Rendell—not just in the general election but in the primary next May, if there was one. Well, there is one, and it is shaping up as a fierce one, against Rep. Joe Sestak, who represents the Philly suburbs. Specter, a notoriously tough and nasty campaigner, will expect his two big backers to support him to the hilt. And Specter, a 79-year-old cancer survivor with enough fortitude for the three of them, has leverage: he's the "60th vote" in the Senate. Read one way, Specter has no choice but to support Obama down the line; read another, Specter has the power, should things get ugly, to snarl the president's legislative agenda. The word in my hometown of Pittsburgh is that Rendell, a devoted sports fan, would love to be baseball commissioner when he leaves public office next year. So perhaps it's appropriate that his big political challenge these days is dealing with the intraleague playoff between Specter and Sestak. It's a battle Rendell tried unsuccessfully to head off. Right now, Specter leads Sestak in most polls , but it hasn't gone unnoticed among Democrats that Sestak holds his own against the likely GOP candidate, Pat Toomey, in many polls —something that could no doubt affect the primary.
October 19, 2009 | Arlen Specter|2010 Elections | By Howard FinemanLet’s Make a Deal
So it looks as though we are going to get a health-care-reform bill. Now the question is whether it will be reform, or "reform": whether it will improve the way we care for people in this country or, for the most part, be a taxpayer-funded boon to the warped and wasteful industry we already know. Call me naive or cynical—or both—but I can't quite get my mind around the notion that the way to bring "change we can believe in" is to cut an upfront deal with Billy Tauzin. (Click here to follow Howard Fineman).
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