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The Red and the Blue is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s politics blog, following local and national politics from a Penn perspective.
Analysis | Obama's Campaign Strategies No comments | APR 27
The New York Times recently noted that the Obama campaign has shifted its strategy to portray Mitt Romney as the “severely conservative” politician he presented himself as in order to court votes during the primaries. The campaign describes this shift of characterization as “So long, flip-flopper. Hello, right-wing extremist.” This is a highly intelligent strategy.
Analysis | Gingrich drops out No comments | APR 25
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, will suspend his campaign for the Republican nomination next week. The announcement came after Presidential candidate Mitt Romney won all five of Tuesday night’s primaries, including the contests in Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Analysis | A Tale of Two Cases No comments | APR 24
Despite the fact that both laws were are controversial and hotly contested, there isn’t much public attention currently focusing on Wednesday’s oral arguments. Sure, some will protest on 1st Street, on the Court’s steps Wednesday, and yes, media outlets will report on the case. But the case isn’t in the same spotlight the bill once occupied. In contrast, oral arguments regarding Obamacare received a plethora of coverage to the point the case was deemed the single most important case in recent history.
Analysis | The Individual Mandate: Unwise and Unconstitutional 4 comments | APR 21
While the health care reform bill is noble in origin, the American public seems unwilling to pay for it at this time. If the individual mandate can’t be passed as a health care tax, than perhaps reform efforts are best directed elsewhere.
Analysis | Reflecting on three decades since Justice O'Connor's first term 1 comment | APR 18
It’s not every day you get the chance to witness history. I did on Apr. 11, when the only four women to have served on the Supreme Court thus far gathered in Washington D.C.
Guest Post: Alex Polyak | What truly 'pro-Israel' means 4 comments | APR 15
Alex Polyak, from the executive board of the Penn chapter of J Street, writes a guest post. J Street is a national organization that advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Economics professor Luca Bossi discusses employment report No comments | APR 15
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report earlier this month. Today, I talked with Penn Economics professor Luca Bossi to get his take on the numbers.
Analysis | 'Women are not an interest group' No comments | APR 12
“Women are not an interest group. You shouldn’t be treated that way.” These were President Obama’s words to the annual White House Forum on Women in the Economy on Apr. 6. The forum was held by the White House’s Council on Women and Girls, which the President created in 2009, early in his presidency and before the onslaught of the “War on Women” began in earnest.
Santorum drops out of race for GOP nomination No comments | APR 10
Rick Santorum formally suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination on Tuesday. During a news conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Santorum announced that while his official bid for the presidency has ended, he is “not done fighting.”
Q&A with Political Science professor Rogers Smith on healthcare reform No comments | APR 8
Political Science professor Rogers Smith, an expert on constitutional law, spoke with us extensively about the constitutional aspects of healthcare reform.
