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Wonkbook: The Case For Obama, And The Continent That Stands In His Way
washingtonpost.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoRead through Wonkbook today and you'll get both the best case for reelecting President Obama, and the single issue most likely to stand between him and a second term. The case for Obama comes by way of Andrew Sullivan. It's worth reading, if for no other reason than if you run in circles that talk politics, you'll probably be asked to discuss it sometime this week. It's an agenda-setting article like that. And, in a sense, it's one Sullivan has written twice. In 2007, he profiled Obama for The Atlantic, in
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Wonkbook: Mitt Romney, (Accidental) Class Traitor?
washingtonpost.com 4 weeks agoTo be fair to Mitt Romney, it's not his fault that he pays a 15 percent tax rate. This isn't some complex, accountant-driven tax scam. First, it's the fault of President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress who, in 1997, lowered the capital gains rate from 28 percent to 20 percent. Second, it's the fault of President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress, which lowered the rate to 15 percent in 2001. As far as we know -- and we haven't seen his full tax returns yet, so all this is provisional -- Ro
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