Jan 20
Friday, January 20th, 2012
NEW YORK — When you’re asking for money, it’s probably a good idea to flatter your benefactors. And so it was Thursday evening that President Obama gave a shout-out to filmmaker Spike Lee.
“I’m not sure this has been reported by the press,” the president recounted during a fundraiser at Lee’s New York townhouse. “On my first official date with [wife] Michelle, I took Michelle to see ‘Do the Right Thing.’”
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Jan 20
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Rick Santorum, perhaps recognizing a make-or-break moment in the South Carolina Republican primary, set about chopping down each of his opponents issue-by-issue in Thursday’s debate.
The former Pennsylvania senator had attacks at the ready for each of his opponents, and perhaps more successfully than any candidate in the dozen-plus debates so far, used them to good effect.
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Jan 20
Friday, January 20th, 2012
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — In an electric debate here Thursday night, the four remaining Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over who has the temperament, character and know-how to lead the party into a general election as they clamored to take advantage of the race’s changing dynamic.
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Jan 20
Friday, January 20th, 2012
The final Republican presidential debate before Saturday’s all-important South Carolina primary is over.
We live-blogged the whole thing and, to be honest, came away generally impressed with the performances by each of the four men on stage.
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Jan 20
Friday, January 20th, 2012
I’ve been taking a hard look at the policy platforms of the Republican presidential contenders — with some surprising results.
For all the attention that Jon Huntsman Jr. got as the race’s sole moderate, his plan called for more — and more regressive — tax cuts than anything Mitt Romney put forward, and his approach to entitlement reform was well to Romney’s right. Rick Santorum’s post-Iowa boomlet focused on his blue-collar credentials, but on close analysis, his plans were far more regressive than those offered by silver-spoon candidates Romney and Huntsman. And though Romney is probably the most moderate candidate in the race, his campaign is well to the right of George W. Bush’s 2000 effort.
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